English

Resummation for the Tevatron and LHC boson production at small x

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Analysis of small-x semi-inclusive DIS hadroproduction suggests that multiple parton radiation leads to a broadening of transverse momentum distributions beyond that predicted by a straightforward calculation in the Collins-Soper-Sterman formalism. This effect can be modeled by a modification of the resummed form factor in the small-x region. We discuss the impact of such a modification on the production of electroweak bosons at hadron-hadron colliders. We show that if substantial small-x broadening is observed in forward Z boson production in the Tevatron Run-2, it would strongly affect predicted transverse momentum distributions for W, Z, and Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401128,
  title  = {Resummation for the Tevatron and LHC boson production at small x},
  author = {S. Berge and P. Nadolsky and F. Olness and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401128},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 5 pages, 2 figures. Contributed to 2003 Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders