High-precision QCD at hadron colliders: Electroweak gauge boson rapidity distributions at next-to-next-to leading order
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource · SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory · +3 more institutions
Abstract
We compute the rapidity distributions of W and Z bosons produced at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC through next-to-next-to leading order in QCD. Our results demonstrate remarkable stability with respect to variations of the factorization and renormalization scales for all values of rapidity accessible in current and future experiments. These processes are therefore ``gold-plated'': current theoretical knowledge yields QCD predictions accurate to better than 1%. These results strengthen the proposal to use W and Z production to determine parton-parton luminosities and constrain parton distribution functions at the LHC. For example, LHC data should easily be able to distinguish the central parton…
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Authors
4- CACharalampos AnastasiouCorresponding
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
- LJLance J. Dixon
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Stanford University
- KMKirill Melnikov
University of Hawaii System
- FPFrank Petriello
Stanford University, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Johns Hopkins University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Topics & keywords
- Physics
- Rapidity
- Parton
- Particle physics
- Tevatron
- Electroweak interaction
- Quantum chromodynamics
- Large Hadron Collider