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Title: A fast and accurate method for perturbative resummation of transverse momentum-dependent observables

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Key Lab. of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE) and Inst. of Modern Physics
  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Here, we propose a novel strategy for the perturbative resummation of transverse momentum-dependent (TMD) observables, using the q T spectra of gauge bosons (γ*, Higgs) in pp collisions in the regime of low (but perturbative) transverse momentum q T as a specific example. First we introduce a scheme to choose the factorization scale for virtuality in momentum space instead of in impact parameter space, allowing us to avoid integrating over (or cutting off) a Landau pole in the inverse Fourier transform of the latter to the former. The factorization scale for rapidity is still chosen as a function of impact parameter b, but in such a way designed to obtain a Gaussian form (in ln b) for the exponentiated rapidity evolution kernel, guaranteeing convergence of the b integral. We then apply this scheme to obtain the q T spectra for Drell-Yan and Higgs production at NNLL accuracy. In addition, using this scheme we are able to obtain a fast semi-analytic formula for the perturbative resummed cross sections in momentum space: analytic in its dependence on all physical variables at each order of logarithmic accuracy, up to a numerical expansion for the pure mathematical Bessel function in the inverse Fourier transform that needs to be performed just once for all observables and kinematics, to any desired accuracy.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Contributing Organization:
TMD Topical Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1440437
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-27820; TRN: US1900732
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2018, Issue 4; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 12 works
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Nonperturbative Uncertainties on the Transverse Momentum Distribution of Electroweak Bosons and on the Determination of the W Boson Mass at the LHC journal March 2019
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