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Power Corrections to Electroweak Boson Production from Threshold Resummation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-18 v1

Abstract

We study the power corrections for electroweak boson production that are implied by threshold resummation, which we have extended to massive particles produced at measured transverse momentum, pTp_T, and rapidity. Power corrections in the resulting expressions arise from ambiguities in the low-scale behavior of the perturbative running coupling. Arguing for the relevance of the eikonal approximation, we show that such power corrections begin at order 1/pT21/p_T^2 in full QCD, consistent with fixed-order, massive-gluon analysis. For large-NN Mellin moments, the leading behavior is N2/pT2N^2/p_T^2, which exponentiates along with the logarithms of threshold resummation.

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@article{arxiv.2208.00937,
  title  = {Power Corrections to Electroweak Boson Production from Threshold Resummation},
  author = {George Sterman and Werner Vogelsang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.00937},
  year   = {2023}
}

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35 pages

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