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Electroweak corrections to $Z$-boson hadroproduction at finite transverse momentum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We calculate the full one-loop electroweak radiative corrections, of O(α2αs){\cal O}(\alpha^2\alpha_s), to the cross section of single ZZ-boson inclusive hadroproduction at finite transverse momentum (pTp_T). This includes the O(α){\cal O}(\alpha) corrections to Z+jZ+j production, the O(αs){\cal O}(\alpha_s) corrections to Z+γZ+\gamma production, and certain QCD-electroweak interference contributions involving a single quark trace. We recover the QCD and purely weak corrections and study the QED corrections and the QCD-electroweak interference contributions for the first time. We also consider direct and resolved photoproduction in elastic and inelastic scattering. We present pTp_T and rapidity distributions for the experimental conditions at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC and assess the significance of the various contributions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.07574,
  title  = {Electroweak corrections to $Z$-boson hadroproduction at finite transverse momentum},
  author = {W. Hollik and B. A. Kniehl and E. S. Shcherbakova and O. L. Veretin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07574},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

31 pages, 11 figures; discussion enhanced, figures added, references added and updated; accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B