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  "abstract": "We study the next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak (EW) corrections to the polarization and correlation of $W$ boson pairs produced through photon-photon fusion in proton-proton ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC, with both $W$ bosons decaying leptonically. The azimuthal correlation distributions of the charged leptons, which receive no contribution from anomalous quartic gauge couplings (AQGCs) at linear order, are perturbatively stable at the 0.40\\% level, whereas individual correlation coefficient $C_{2,2}$ receives relative corrections of up to $-33.84\\%$. Some of correlation coefficients that vanish at leading order (LO) in the Standard Model but are sensitive to AQGCs acquire non-zero one-loop values of order $10^{-4}-10^{-3}$. We quantify the region of the ($a_0/Λ^2,a_c/Λ^2$) plane in which these loop-induced baselines compete with the AQGC contributions and find that, while irrelevant at the current experimental sensitivity, they must be included once the correlation coefficients are measured at the per-mille level.",
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    {
      "name": "Jun Jiang"
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    {
      "name": "Peng-Cheng Lu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Zongguo Si"
    },
    {
      "name": "Han Zhang"
    },
    {
      "name": "Xin-Yi Zhang"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/fjr9a47qqgppn.bib",
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2609.27451",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.27451",
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  "published": "2026-09-23",
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  "title": "Polarization and correlation effects in $γγ\\to W^-W^+$ at Next-to-Leading-Order Electroweak Accuracy",
  "title_text": "Polarization and correlation effects in γγ→ W^-W^+ at Next-to-Leading-Order Electroweak Accuracy",
  "type": "preprint",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:23:56Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/fjr9a47qqgppn",
  "venue": "arXiv",
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