Cargando…

Unintegrated parton distributions and electroweak boson production at hadron colliders

We describe the use of doubly-unintegrated parton distributions in hadron-hadron collisions, using the (z,k_t)-factorisation prescription where the transverse momentum of the incoming parton is generated in the last evolution step. We apply this formalism to calculate the transverse momentum (P_T) d...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Watt, G, Martin, A D, Ryskin, M G
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2003
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.014012
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.079902
http://cds.cern.ch/record/817699
Descripción
Sumario:We describe the use of doubly-unintegrated parton distributions in hadron-hadron collisions, using the (z,k_t)-factorisation prescription where the transverse momentum of the incoming parton is generated in the last evolution step. We apply this formalism to calculate the transverse momentum (P_T) distributions of produced W and Z bosons and compare the predictions to Tevatron Run 1 data. We find that the observed P_T distributions can be generated almost entirely by the leading order q_1 q_2 -> W,Z subprocesses, using known and universal doubly-unintegrated quark distributions. We also calculate the P_T distribution of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the LHC, where the dominant production mechanism is by gluon-gluon fusion.