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O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-07-15 v2

Abstract

Drell-Yan-like W-boson and Z-boson production in the resonance region allows for some high-precision measurements that are crucial to carry experimental tests of the Standard Model to the extremes, such as the determinations of the W-boson mass and the effective weak mixing angle. We describe how the Standard Model prediction can be successfully performed in terms of a consistent expansion about the resonance pole, which classifies the corrections in terms of factorizable and non-factorizable contributions. The former can be attributed to the W/Z production and decay subprocesses individually, while the latter link production and decay by soft-photon exchange. At next-to-leading order we compare the full electroweak corrections with the pole-expanded approximations, confirming the validity of the approximation. At O(\alpha_s\alpha), we describe the concept of the expansion and report on results on the non-factorizable contributions, which turn out to be phenomenologically negligible. Moreover, we present first (preliminary) results on the dominant factorizable O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections, which originate from the interplay of initial-state QCD and final-state electroweak corrections. Numerically those corrections significantly differ from a mere product of the two next-to-leading-order correction factors.

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@article{arxiv.1405.6897,
  title  = {O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region},
  author = {Stefan Dittmaier and Alexander Huss and Christian Schwinn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6897},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

9 pages, latex, postscript figures, contribution to the proceedings of the conference "Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory - LL 2014, 27 April - 2 May 2014, Weimar, Germany, discussion of factorizable O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections extended in version 2