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Drell–Yan lepton-pair production: resummation at accuracy and fiducial cross sections at
Phys. Rev. D 104, L111503 – Published 30 December, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L111503
Abstract
We present high-accuracy QCD predictions for the transverse-momentum () distribution and fiducial cross sections of Drell–Yan lepton pairs produced in hadronic collisions. At small values of we resum to all perturbative orders the logarithmically enhanced contributions up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic () accuracy, including all the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order () [i.e., ] terms. Our resummed calculation has been implemented in the public numerical program DYTurbo, which produces fast and precise predictions with the full dependence on the final-state lepton kinematics. We consistently combine our resummed results with the known fixed-order predictions at large values of thus also obtaining full accuracy for fiducial cross sections. We show numerical results at LHC energies discussing the reduction of the perturbative uncertainty with respect to lower-order calculations.
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