Volume 290 - 13th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology) (RADCOR2017) - Effective Field Theories / SCET
Factorization of the Drell-Yan q_T spectrum with massive quarks
D. Samitz,* P. Pietrulewicz, A. Spiering, F. Tackmann
*corresponding author
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Pre-published on: 2018 February 21
Published on: 2018 July 02
Abstract
Exclusive differential spectra in color-singlet processes at hadron colliders are benchmark observables that have been studied to high precision in theory and experiment.
We present an effective-theory framework utilizing soft-collinear effective theory to incorporate massive (bottom) quark effects into resummed differential distributions, accounting for both heavy-quark initiated primary contributions to the hard scattering process as well as secondary effects from gluons splitting into heavy-quark pairs.
We discuss a variable flavor number scheme (VFNS) for the Drell-Yan process for the vector-boson transverse momentum $q_T$ as an example of an exclusive observable. The theoretical description depends on the hierarchy between the hard, mass, and the $q_T$ scale, ranging from the decoupling limit $q_T \ll m$ to the massless limit $m \ll q_T$. The phenomenologically relevant intermediate regime $m \sim q_T$ requires in particular quark-mass dependent beam and soft functions. We find that the rapidity divergences are different from the massless case and we discuss features of the resulting rapidity evolution. Our results will allow for a detailed investigation of quark-mass effects in the ratio of $W$ and $Z$ boson spectra at small $q_T$, which is important for the precision measurement of the $W$-boson mass at the LHC.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.290.0053
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