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Phenomenology of electro-weak bosons at hadron colliders with novel variables

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-08-15 v2

Abstract

We review the phenomenology of electro-weak bosons produced in hadron-hadron collisions. In particular, we discuss the transverse momentum distribution of lepton pairs with invariant mass close to the Z peak. We describe the theoretical calculation for the magnitude of the transverse momentum Q_T and its comparison to Tevatron and LHC data. We also discuss the related variable \phi*, describing its experimental advantages as well as its relation to the standard Q_T variable. Finally, we compare resummed predictions for \phi* to data.

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@article{arxiv.1207.4279,
  title  = {Phenomenology of electro-weak bosons at hadron colliders with novel variables},
  author = {Simone Marzani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4279},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Brief Review for MPLA, 11 pages, 4 figures