Determination of the Transverse Momentum of W Bosons in Hadronic Collisions via Forward Folding Techniques
arXiv:1512.03276 · doi:10.1142/S0217732316500693
Abstract
The measurement of the transverse momentum of W bosons in hadron collisions provides not only an important test of QCD calculations, but also is an important input for the precision measurement of the W boson mass. While the measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum is experimentally well under control, the available unfolding techniques for the W boson final states lead generically to relatively large uncertainties. In this paper, we present a new methodology to estimate the W boson transverse momentum spectrum, significantly improving the systematic uncertainties of current approaches.
15 pages, 12 figures
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