https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7324-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The transverse momentum spectrum of weak gauge bosons at N
LL + NNLO
1
Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik (TTP), KIT, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
2
Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), KIT, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
3
Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
4
Department of Physics, University of Zürich, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
5
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
6
Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
7
LAPTh, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, 74940, Annecy, France
8
Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, U2, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 3, 20126, Milan, Italy
9
INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy
* e-mail: luca.rottoli@cern.ch
Received:
24
June
2019
Accepted:
20
September
2019
Published online:
22
October
2019
We present accurate QCD predictions for the transverse momentum (
) spectrum of electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC for 
collisions, based on a consistent combination of a NNLO calculation at large and N
LL resummation in the small limit. The inclusion of higher order corrections leads to substantial changes in the shape of the differential distributions, and the residual perturbative uncertainties are reduced to the few percent level across the whole transverse momentum spectrum. We examine the ratio of distributions in charged- and neutral-current Drell–Yan production, and study different prescriptions for the estimate of perturbative uncertainties that rely on different degrees of correlation between these processes. We observe an excellent stability of the ratios with respect to the perturbative order, indicating a strong correlation between the corresponding QCD corrections.
© The Author(s), 2019
