Defiducialization: Providing Experimental Measurements for Accurate Fixed-Order Predictions
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2020-09-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
An experimental procedure is proposed to perform measurements of differential cross sections which can be compared to fixed-order QCD predictions with improved accuracy. The procedure can be applied to the Drell-Yan cross-section measurements which are differential in the boson transverse momentum. An example analysis is performed using the ATLAS measurement of the -boson production cross section at center-of-mass energy of TeV. The resulting full phase space measurement of the cross section differential in the boson rapidity is compared to theoretical predictions computed with next-to-next-to leading-order accuracy in QCD.
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@article{arxiv.2001.02933,
title = {Defiducialization: Providing Experimental Measurements for Accurate Fixed-Order Predictions},
author = {Alexander Glazov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02933},
year = {2020}
}
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17 pages, 8 figures