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Title: Z-boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD

Abstract

Here, we present the first complete calculation of Z-boson production in association with a jet in hadronic collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Our computation uses the recently proposed N-jettiness subtraction scheme to regulate the infrared divergences that appear in the real-emission contributions. We present phenomenological results for 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with fully realistic fiducial cuts on the final-state particles. The remaining theoretical uncertainties after the inclusion of our calculations are at the percent level, making the Z+jet channel ready for precision studies at the LHC run II.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6]
  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  3. Univ. of Durham, Durham (United Kingdom)
  4. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  5. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1253182
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1247448
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-15-519-T; IPPP-15-79; arXiv:1512.01291
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 1408300
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 116; Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Boughezal, Radja, Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, Focke, Christfried, Giele, Walter T., Liu, Xiaohui, and Petriello, Frank. Z-boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.152001.
Boughezal, Radja, Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, Focke, Christfried, Giele, Walter T., Liu, Xiaohui, & Petriello, Frank. Z-boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.152001
Boughezal, Radja, Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, Focke, Christfried, Giele, Walter T., Liu, Xiaohui, and Petriello, Frank. Thu . "Z-boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.152001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1253182.
@article{osti_1253182,
title = {Z-boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD},
author = {Boughezal, Radja and Campbell, John M. and Ellis, R. Keith and Focke, Christfried and Giele, Walter T. and Liu, Xiaohui and Petriello, Frank},
abstractNote = {Here, we present the first complete calculation of Z-boson production in association with a jet in hadronic collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Our computation uses the recently proposed N-jettiness subtraction scheme to regulate the infrared divergences that appear in the real-emission contributions. We present phenomenological results for 13 TeV proton-proton collisions with fully realistic fiducial cuts on the final-state particles. The remaining theoretical uncertainties after the inclusion of our calculations are at the percent level, making the Z+jet channel ready for precision studies at the LHC run II.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.152001},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 116,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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