The transverse momentum spectrum of weak gauge bosons at N${}^3$LL+NNLO

Abstract

We present accurate QCD predictions for the transverse momentum pT spectrum of electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC for 13 TeV collisions, based on a consistent combination of a NNLO calculation at large pT and N3LL resummation in the small pT 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 pT 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.

arXiv comment10 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in EPJC. Corrected small mistake in plotting routines which lead to a minor misestimate of scale uncertainties in some of the plots. Predictions available in electronic format in the ancillary file data_paper.txt included in the submission

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