25–29 Nov 2019
University of Pavia
Europe/Rome timezone

Combining QED and QCD transverse-momentum resummation for vector boson production at hadron colliders

27 Nov 2019, 09:30
20m
Aula Foscolo (University of Pavia)

Aula Foscolo

University of Pavia

Via Strada Nuova 65, Pavia

Speaker

Giancarlo Ferrera (MI)

Description

We consider the transverse-momentum (qT) distribution of Z bosons produced in hadronic collisions. At small values of qT, we perform the analytic resummation of the logarithmically enhanced QED contributions up to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, including the mixed QCD-QED contributions at leading logarithmic accuracy. Resummed results are consistently matched with the next-to-leading fixed-order results at small, intermediate and large values of qT and combined the known QCD results. We show numerical results at LHC and Tevatron energies, studying the impact of the QED corrections and providing an estimate of the corresponding perturbative uncertainty. We show preliminary results about the extension of our analytic results, valid for the production of generic neutral and colourless high-mass systems in hadronic collision, to the case of charged W boson production.

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Co-authors

Dr Leandro Javier Cieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sez. Milano Bicocca) German Fabricio Roberto Sborlini (M)

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