Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay

Abstract: We consider the transverse-momentum (q T ) distribution of Drell-Yan lepton pairs produced, via W and Z/γ * decay, in hadronic collisions. At small values of q T , we resum the logarithmically-enhanced perturbative QCD contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Resum...

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Autores principales: Catani, S., de Florian, D., Ferrera, G., Grazzini, M.
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spelling todo:paper_11266708_v2015_n12_p1_Catani2023-10-03T16:07:17Z Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay Catani, S. de Florian, D. Ferrera, G. Grazzini, M. QCD Resummation Abstract: We consider the transverse-momentum (q T ) distribution of Drell-Yan lepton pairs produced, via W and Z/γ * decay, in hadronic collisions. At small values of q T , we resum the logarithmically-enhanced perturbative QCD contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Resummed results are consistently combined with the known (Formula Presented.) fixed-order results at intermediate and large values of q T . Our calculation includes the leptonic decay of the vector boson with the corresponding spin correlations, the finite-width effects and the full dependence on the final-state lepton(s) kinematics. The computation is encoded in the numerical program DYRes, which allows the user to apply arbitrary kinematical cuts on the final-state leptons and to compute the corresponding distributions in the form of bin histograms. We present a comparison of our results with some of the available LHC data. The inclusion of the leptonic decay in the resummed calculation requires a theoretical discussion on the q T recoil due to the transverse momentum of the produced vector boson. We present a q T recoil procedure that is directly applicable to q T resummed calculations for generic production processes of high-mass systems in hadron collisions. © 2015, The Author(s). Fil:de Florian, D. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_11266708_v2015_n12_p1_Catani
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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topic QCD
Resummation
spellingShingle QCD
Resummation
Catani, S.
de Florian, D.
Ferrera, G.
Grazzini, M.
Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
topic_facet QCD
Resummation
description Abstract: We consider the transverse-momentum (q T ) distribution of Drell-Yan lepton pairs produced, via W and Z/γ * decay, in hadronic collisions. At small values of q T , we resum the logarithmically-enhanced perturbative QCD contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Resummed results are consistently combined with the known (Formula Presented.) fixed-order results at intermediate and large values of q T . Our calculation includes the leptonic decay of the vector boson with the corresponding spin correlations, the finite-width effects and the full dependence on the final-state lepton(s) kinematics. The computation is encoded in the numerical program DYRes, which allows the user to apply arbitrary kinematical cuts on the final-state leptons and to compute the corresponding distributions in the form of bin histograms. We present a comparison of our results with some of the available LHC data. The inclusion of the leptonic decay in the resummed calculation requires a theoretical discussion on the q T recoil due to the transverse momentum of the produced vector boson. We present a q T recoil procedure that is directly applicable to q T resummed calculations for generic production processes of high-mass systems in hadron collisions. © 2015, The Author(s).
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author Catani, S.
de Florian, D.
Ferrera, G.
Grazzini, M.
author_facet Catani, S.
de Florian, D.
Ferrera, G.
Grazzini, M.
author_sort Catani, S.
title Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
title_short Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
title_full Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
title_fullStr Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
title_full_unstemmed Vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
title_sort vector boson production at hadron colliders: transverse-momentum resummation and leptonic decay
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_11266708_v2015_n12_p1_Catani
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