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Contentsx6 Phenomenological Studies 1476.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1476.2 Improvements from the semi-numeric code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486.3 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1496.4 Tev<strong>at</strong>ron results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1506.4.1 Effect <strong>of</strong> additional search cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1536.5 LHC results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1546.5.1 Weak <strong>boson</strong> fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1566.5.2 Dynamic versus fixed scale choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576.5.3 Consider<strong>at</strong>ions from the effective theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 1616.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647 Conclusions 167Appendix 170A Sp<strong>in</strong>or Helicity Formalism and Tree-level Amplitudes 170A.1 Sp<strong>in</strong>or Helicity Formalism not<strong>at</strong>ion and conventions . . . . . . . . . . 170A.1.1 Sp<strong>in</strong>or not<strong>at</strong>ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170A.1.2 Colour order<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> φ plus parton amplitudes <strong>at</strong> tree-level andone-loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172A.2 Tree-level amplitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173A.3 Pure QCD amplitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174A.4 φ plus parton amplitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175B One-loop Basis Integrals 176B.1 Extraction <strong>of</strong> k<strong>in</strong>em<strong>at</strong>ic factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

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