Phenomenology of the Z boson plus jet process at NNLO

Boughezal, Radja; Liu, Xiaohui; Petriello, Frank

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.074015

Title: Phenomenology of the $Z$ boson plus jet process at NNLO

Journal Article · Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.074015· OSTI ID:1350968

Boughezal, Radja ^[1]; Liu, Xiaohui ^[2]; Petriello, Frank ^[3]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)

Here, we present a detailed phenomenological study of Z-boson production in association with a jet through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. Fiducial cross sections and differential distributions for both 8 TeV and 13 TeV LHC collisions are presented. We study the impact of different parton distribution functions (PDFs) on predictions for the Z + jet process. Upon inclusion of the NNLO corrections, the residual scale uncertainty is reduced such that both the total rate and the transverse momentum distributions can be used to discriminate between various PDF sets.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231; FG02-93ER-40762; FG02-91ER40684

OSTI ID:: 1350968

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1328575

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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