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Fiducial Drell-Yan production at the LHC improved by transverse-momentum resummation at N4LLp+N3LO

Tobias Neumann

John Campbell

  • Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  • Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 107, L011506 – Published 27 January, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.L011506

Abstract

Drell-Yan production is one of the precision cornerstones of the LHC, serving as calibration for measurements such as the W-boson mass. Its extreme precision at the level of 1% challenges theory predictions at the highest level. We present the first independent calculation of Drell-Yan production at order αs3 in transverse-momentum (qT) resummation improved perturbation theory. Our calculation reaches the state-of-the-art through inclusion of the recently published four loop rapidity anomalous dimension and three loop massive axial-vector contributions. We compare to the most recent data from CMS with fiducial and differential cross-section predictions and find excellent agreement at the percent level. Our resummed calculation including the matching to Z+jet production at NNLO is publicly available in the upcoming cute-mcfm 10.3 release and allows for theory-data comparison at an unprecedented level.

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Phys. Rev. D 107, L011506– Published 27 January, 2023
  • Received 27 July 2022
  • Revised 4 October 2022
  • Accepted 1 January 2023
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