Z boson transverse momentum spectrum from the lepton angular distributions
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2010-12-09 v1
Abstract
In view of recent discussions concerning the possibly limiting energy resolution systematics on the measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum distribution at hadron colliders, we propose a novel measurement method based on the angular distributions of the decay leptons. We also introduce a phenomenological parametrization of the transverse momentum distribution that adapts well to all currently available predictions, a useful tool to quantify their differences.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.1850,
title = {Z boson transverse momentum spectrum from the lepton angular distributions},
author = {Maarten Boonekamp and Matthias Schott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1850},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
12 pages, 6 figures