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Vector boson production in hadronic collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We consider the production of γ,W\gamma^*, W and ZZ vector bosons in hadron-hadron collisions in perturbative QCD. We present results from a new numerical program which gives a full description of the production of the vector bosons and of their decay products. At small \qt\qt the calculation includes resummation of large logarithms and non-perturbative effects. The resummation is matched with the full O(αS)O(\alpha_S) calculation. In addition, the program correctly reproduces the known O(αS)O(\alpha_S) cross section when integrated over \qt\qt. Besides presenting results for WW and ZZ production at the Tevatron, we also review constraints on the non-perturbative functions using fixed target data on lepton pair production, and make several observations on this topic.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9704239,
  title  = {Vector boson production in hadronic collisions},
  author = {R. K. Ellis and D. A. Ross and S. Veseli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9704239},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

32 pages, latex, 17 postscript figures included

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