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The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$

<!--HTML-->We present state-of-the-art SCETlib predictions for the $W$ and $Z/\gamma^*$ transverse-momentum ($q_T$) distributions at the LHC at complete three-loop order in resummed perturbation theory (N$^3$LL$'$) and matched to available fixed order. We pay particular attention to the e...

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Autor principal: Michel, Johannes
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2807181
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description <!--HTML-->We present state-of-the-art SCETlib predictions for the $W$ and $Z/\gamma^*$ transverse-momentum ($q_T$) distributions at the LHC at complete three-loop order in resummed perturbation theory (N$^3$LL$'$) and matched to available fixed order. We pay particular attention to the estimation of theory uncertainties via profile scale variations in such a way that perturbative uncertainties due to PDF evolution, perturbative resummation uncertainties, and nonperturbative uncertainties for $q_T \to 0$ are cleanly disentangled, and compare our predictions to high-precision measurements by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. The speed and versatility of our resummed calculation also allow us to study the dependence on the strong coupling, the PDFs, and their parametric uncertainties at this order. We find intriguing evidence that the normalized ATLAS and CMS $Z$ $q_T$ spectra may prefer a lower strong coupling than the PDG value.
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spelling cern-28071812022-11-02T22:04:45Z http://cds.cern.ch/record/2807181 eng Michel, Johannes The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$ Standard Model at the LHC 2022 Conferences <!--HTML-->We present state-of-the-art SCETlib predictions for the $W$ and $Z/\gamma^*$ transverse-momentum ($q_T$) distributions at the LHC at complete three-loop order in resummed perturbation theory (N$^3$LL$'$) and matched to available fixed order. We pay particular attention to the estimation of theory uncertainties via profile scale variations in such a way that perturbative uncertainties due to PDF evolution, perturbative resummation uncertainties, and nonperturbative uncertainties for $q_T \to 0$ are cleanly disentangled, and compare our predictions to high-precision measurements by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. The speed and versatility of our resummed calculation also allow us to study the dependence on the strong coupling, the PDFs, and their parametric uncertainties at this order. We find intriguing evidence that the normalized ATLAS and CMS $Z$ $q_T$ spectra may prefer a lower strong coupling than the PDG value. 2022
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The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$
title The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$
title_full The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$
title_fullStr The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$
title_full_unstemmed The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$
title_short The Drell-Yan $q_T$ Spectrum and Its Uncertainty at N$^3$LL$'$
title_sort drell-yan $q_t$ spectrum and its uncertainty at n$^3$ll$'$
topic Conferences
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/2807181
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