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Electroweak corrections to the angular coefficients in finite-$p_T$ $Z$-boson production and dilepton decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-10-14 v2

Abstract

We present next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections to the dominant five angular coefficients parametrizing the Drell-Yan process in the ZZ-boson mass peak range for finite-pTp_T vector boson production. The results are presented differentially in the vector boson transverse momentum. The Lam-Tung violating difference A0A2A_0-A_2 is examined alongside the coefficients. A single lepton transverse momentum cut is needed in the case of electroweak corrections to avoid a double singularity in the photon induced diagrams, and the dependence on the value of this cut is examined. We compare the electroweak corrections to the angular coefficients to the NLO QCD corrections, including the single lepton cut. The size of the single lepton cut is found to affect the two coefficients A0A_0 and A2A_2 to largest extent. The relative size of the electroweak corrections to the coefficients is moderate for all single lepton cut values, and by extrapolation to the inclusive results, is moderate also for the full dilepton phase space case. However, for the Lam-Tung violation, there is a significant contribution from the electroweak corrections for low pTp_T of the lepton pair.

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@article{arxiv.2007.08867,
  title  = {Electroweak corrections to the angular coefficients in finite-$p_T$ $Z$-boson production and dilepton decay},
  author = {Rikkert Frederix and Timea Vitos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08867},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures