Anomalous quartic gauge couplings and unitarization for the vector boson scattering process $pp\rightarrow W^+W^+jjX\rightarrow \ell ^+\nu _\ell \ell ^+\nu _\ell jjX$

Weak vector bosonscattering (VBS) at the LHC provides an excellent source of information on the structure of quartic gauge couplings and possible effects of physics beyond the SM in electroweak symmetry breaking. Parameterizing deviations from the SM within an effective field theoryat tree level, the dimension-8 operators, which are needed for sufficiently general modeling, lead to unphysical enhancements of cross sections within the accessible energy range of the LHC. Preservation of unitaritylimits is needed for phenomenological studies of the VVjj events which signify VBS. Here we develop a numerical unitarizationscheme for the full off-shell VBS processes and apply it to same-sign W scattering, i.e. processes like \(qq\rightarrow qqW^+W^+\). The scheme is implemented within the Monte Carlo program VBFNLO, including leptonic decay of the weak bosons and NLO QCD corrections. Distributions differentiating between higher dimensional operatorsare discussed.