Di-lepton Rapidity Distribution in Drell-Yan Production to Third Order in QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2022-02-04 v2
Abstract
We compute for the first time the lepton-pair rapidity distribution in the photon-mediated Drell-Yan process to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD. The calculation is based on the qT-subtraction method, suitably extended to this order for quark-antiquark initiated Born processes. Our results display sizeable QCD corrections at NLO over the full rapidity region and provide a fully independent confirmation of the recent results for the total Drell-Yan cross section at this order.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.09085,
title = {Di-lepton Rapidity Distribution in Drell-Yan Production to Third Order in QCD},
author = {Xuan Chen and Thomas Gehrmann and Nigel Glover and Alexander Huss and Tong-Zhi Yang and Hua Xing Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09085},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, version 2 with fitted total cross section from qT sub-leading power correction and with changes for PRL publication