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Title: Weak radiative corrections to the Drell-Yan process for large invariant mass of a dilepton pair

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna (Russian Federation)

The weak radiative corrections to the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak have been studied. The compact asymptotic expression for the two heavy boson exchange--one of the significant contributions to the investigated process--has been obtained, the results expand in the powers of the Sudakov electroweak logarithms. At the quark level we compare the weak radiative corrections to the total cross section and forward-backward asymmetry with the existing results and achieve a rather good coincidence at {radical}(s) > or approx. 0.5 TeV. The numerical analysis has been performed in the high energy region corresponding to the future experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). To simulate the detector acceptance we used the standard CMS detector cuts. It was shown that double Sudakov logarithms of the WW boxes are the dominant contributions in hadronic cross section. The considered radiative corrections are significant at high dilepton mass M and change the dilepton mass distribution up to {approx}+3(-12)% at the LHC energies and M=1(5) TeV.

OSTI ID:
21020256
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.073019; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English