Disentangling radiative corrections using high-mass Drell-Yan at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-03-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We present a detailed numerical study of lepton-pair production via the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak at the LHC. Our results consistently combine next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections and next-to-leading order electroweak effects, and include the leading photon-initiated processes using a recent extraction of the photon distribution function. We focus on the effects of electroweak corrections and of photon-photon scattering contributions, and demonstrate which kinematic distributions exhibit sensitivity to these corrections. We show that a combination of measurements allows them to be disentangled and separately determined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.3972,
title = {Disentangling radiative corrections using high-mass Drell-Yan at the LHC},
author = {Radja Boughezal and Ye Li and Frank Petriello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.3972},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
26 pages, 45 figures