Soft gluon effects on lepton pairs at hadron colliders

Journal Article · Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1997 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.56.5558· OSTI ID:543889

Balazs, C; Yuan, C ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States)

We consider the Collins-Soper-Sterman resummation formalism, which describes the vector boson transverse momentum (Q{sub T}) distribution at hadron colliders, and extend it for the distributions of the decay leptons by correctly including the effects of the polarization and the width of the vector boson. Numerous aspects of the formalism are reviewed at the O({alpha}{sub S}{sup 2}) level, including the matching of the Q{sub T} distribution and the value of the total cross section. Detailed comparisons of several O({alpha}{sub S}) fixed order (NLO) and resummed lepton distributions are presented. The total rates and the distributions of the lepton charge asymmetry predicted by the resummed and the NLO calculations are shown to differ when kinematic cuts are applied. We also show how to test the rich dynamics of the QCD multiple soft gluon radiation, among others by measuring the ratio R{sub CSS}{equivalent_to}{sigma}(Q{sub T}{gt}Q{sub T}{sup min})/{sigma}{sub total}. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 543889
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Vol. 56, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
LEPTONS
PAIR PRODUCTION
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
GLUONS
POLARIZATION
WIDTH
TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
C INVARIANCE