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We discuss the production of a lepton pair in quark-antiquark annihilation in the electroweak Standard Model. We present the ultraviolet-renormalised and infrared-subtracted finite contribution of the complete set of second-order virtual…

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We study the one-loop correction in Transverse-Momentum-Dependent(TMD) factorization for Drell-Yan processes at small transverse momentum of the lepton pair. We adopt the so-called subtractive approach, in which one can systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-09 J. P. Ma , G. P. Zhang

The Drell-Yan production of charged lepton pairs is one of the key processes measured at hadron colliders. The QCD corrections to the cross section are known to order $\alpha_s^2$ and electroweak corrections are known to order $\alpha$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Matthias Heller , Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger , Hubert Spiesberger

We calculate the full one-loop electroweak radiative corrections to the cross section of single W-boson inclusive hadroproduction at finite transverse momentum (p_T). This includes the O(alpha) corrections to W+j production, the O(alpha_s)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Hollik , T. Kasprzik , B. A. Kniehl

We derive a new factorization formula in perturbative quantum chromodynamics for the Drell-Yan massive lepton-pair cross section as a function of the transverse momentum $Q_T$ of the pair. When $Q_T$ is much larger than the pair's invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Edmond L. Berger , Jianwei Qiu , Xiaofei Zhang

We calculate the full one-loop electroweak radiative corrections, of ${\cal O}(\alpha^2\alpha_s)$, to the cross section of single $Z$-boson inclusive hadroproduction at finite transverse momentum ($p_T$). This includes the ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 W. Hollik , B. A. Kniehl , E. S. Shcherbakova , O. L. Veretin

We analyze transverse momentum ($Q_T$) resummation of a colorless final state, e.g. Higgs production in gluon fusion or the production of a lepton pair via the Drell-Yan mechanism, in the limit where the invariant mass of the final state is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-14 Simone Marzani

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of a heavy-quark pair in hadronic collisions. We present the computation of the soft-parton contributions at low transverse momentum of the heavy-quark pair up to second order in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Stefano Catani , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Javier Mazzitelli

An adequate description of the neutral-current Drell-Yan process at the Tevatron and the LHC, in particular, requires the inclusion of electroweak radiative corrections. We extend earlier work in this direction in various ways. First, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Stefan Dittmaier , Max Huber

We compute, in the framework of renormalon calculus, the ${\cal O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD})$ corrections to the production of $t\bar{t}$ pairs in hadron collisions under the assumption that $q \bar q \to t \bar t$ is the dominant partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-25 Sergei Makarov , Kirill Melnikov , Paolo Nason , Melih A. Ozcelik

We discuss the lepton-pair production process in Quantum Electrodynamics. We present the ultraviolet-renormalised and infrared-subtracted finite contribution of the second-order virtual corrections to the inclusive lepton-pair production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Tommaso Armadillo , Simone Devoto , Michele Dradi , Alessandro Vicini

We study a class of nonperturbative corrections to single-inclusive photon cross sections at measured transverse momentum p_T, in the large-x_T limit. We develop an extension of the joint (threshold and transverse momentum) resummation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang

We report the current understanding of heavy quarkonium production at high transverse momentum ($p_T$) in hadronic collisions in terms of QCD factorization. In this presentation, we highlight the role of subleading power corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Kyle Lee , Jian-Wei Qiu , George Sterman , Kazuhiro Watanabe

Power-suppressed corrections coming from the end-point integration regions in the amplitude of the process $\gamma^{*}\gamma \to \pi \pi$ at large $Q^2$ and small squared center-of-mass energy $W^2$ are calculated in the QCD hard-scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. S. Agaev , M. Guidal , B. Pire

We study the transverse momentum ($Q_T$) distribution of an electro-weak vector boson produced via the Drell-Yan mechanism, in the context of joint resummation. This formalism allows for the simultaneous resummation of logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-13 Simone Marzani , Vincent Theeuwes

We consider the production of a colourless system at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. We impose a transverse-momentum cutoff, qtcut, on the colourless final state and we compute the power corrections for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Leandro Cieri , Carlo Oleari , Marco Rocco

Resummation of large infrared logarithms in perturbation theory can, in certain circumstances, enhance the sensitivity to small gluon momenta and introduce spurious nonperturbative contributions. In particular, different procedures --…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Beneke , V. M. Braun

$N$-jettiness subtractions provide a general approach for performing fully-differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculations. Since they are based on the physical resolution variable $N$-jettiness, $\mathcal{T}_N$, subleading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-31 Ian Moult , Lorena Rothen , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Hua Xing Zhu

The COMPASS collaboration published precise data on production cross section of charged hadrons in lepton-hadron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, showing almost an order of magnitude larger than next-to-leading order QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-15 Tianbo Liu , Jian-Wei Qiu

We combine the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to lepton-pair production through the Drell-Yan mechanism with the next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections within the framework of the FEWZ simulation code.…

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