Third order fiducial predictions for Drell-Yan at the LHC

Abstract

The Drell-Yan process at hadron colliders is a fundamental benchmark for the study of strong interactions and the extraction of electro-weak parameters. The outstanding precision of the LHC demands very accurate theoretical predictions with a full account of fiducial experimental cuts. In this letter we present a state-of-the-art calculation of the fiducial cross section and of differential distributions for this process at third order in the strict fixed-order expansion in the strong coupling, as well as including the all-order resummation of logarithmic corrections. Together with these results, we present a detailed study of the subtraction technique used to carry out the calculation for different sets of experimental cuts, as well as of the sensitivity of the fiducial cross section to infrared physics. We find that residual theory uncertainties are reduced to the percent level and that the robustness of the predictions can be improved by a suitable adjustment of fiducial cuts.

7 pages, 3 figures, 1 Table + suppl. material. Minor modifications and updated figures. Version published in PRL

References in corpus (25)

• LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era
• An NNLO subtraction formalism in hadron collisions and its application to Higgs boson production at the LHC
• Drell-Yan production at small q_T, transverse parton distributions and the collinear anomaly
• The Path to Proton Structure at One-Percent Accuracy
• Precision electroweak calculation of the production of a high transverse-momentum lepton pair at hadron colliders
• Production of Drell--Yan lepton pairs in hadron collisions: transverse-momentum resummation at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy
• Soft-/rapidity- anomalous dimensions correspondence
• Four-Loop Non-Singlet Splitting Functions in the Planar Limit and Beyond
• Drell-Yan lepton pair production at NNLO QCD with parton showers
• Mixed QCD-electroweak O(α_sα) corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region: pole approximation and non-factorizable corrections
• Precision electroweak calculation of the charged current Drell-Yan process
• Extraction of unpolarized quark transverse momentum dependent parton distributions from Drell-Yan/Z-boson production
• NNLOPS accurate Drell-Yan production
• One-loop corrections to the Drell--Yan process in SANC (II). The neutral current case
• Measurement of the W boson mass
• Matter dependence of the four-loop cusp anomalous dimension
• Lepton-pair production at hadron colliders at N${}^3$LO in QCD
• Precise predictions for the angular coefficients in Z-boson production at the LHC
• Four-loop quark form factor with quartic fundamental colour factor
• Matter dependence of the four-loop QCD cusp anomalous dimension: from small angles to all angles
• The impact of the LHC Z-boson transverse momentum data on PDF determinations
• The $q_T$ and $\Delta \varphi$ spectra in W and Z production at the LHC at N${}^3$LL'+N${}^2$LO
• NNLO QCD$\times$EW corrections to Z production in the $q\bar{q}$ channel
• Linear power corrections for two-body kinematics in the $q_T$ subtraction formalism
• Transverse momentum distributions in low-mass Drell-Yan lepton pair production at NNLO QCD

Cited by in corpus (37)

• 50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics
• Unpolarized Transverse Momentum Distributions from a global fit of Drell-Yan and Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering data
• Event Generators for High-Energy Physics Experiments
• Inclusive Production Cross Sections at N3LO
• Fiducial Drell-Yan production at the LHC improved by transverse-momentum resummation at N${}^4$LL+N${}^3$LO
• The Four Loop QCD Rapidity Anomalous Dimension
• PDF bias and flavor dependence in TMD distributions
• Les Houches 2021: Physics at TeV Colliders: Report on the Standard Model Precision Wishlist
• PanScales showers for hadron collisions: all-order validation
• Third order QCD predictions for fiducial W-boson production
• Tree-level soft emission of a quark pair in association with a gluon
• A general algorithm to build mixed real and virtual antenna functions for higher-order calculations
• High-energy QCD dynamics from bottom flavor fragmentation at the Hi-Lumi LHC
• Drell-Yan Transverse-Momentum Spectra at N${}^3$LL${}^{\prime }$ and Approximate N${}^4$LL with SCETlib
• The parton-level structure of $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ to 2 jets at N${}^3$LO
• Exotic tetraquarks at the HL-LHC with JETHAD: A high-energy viewpoint
• Bottomoniumlike states in proton collisions: Fragmentation and resummation
• Multi-jet Merging with TMD Parton Branching
• Combining QED and QCD transverse-momentum resummation for W and Z boson production at hadron colliders
• Determination of the strong-coupling constant from the $Z$-boson transverse-momentum distribution
• A precise measurement of the Z-boson double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in the full phase space of the decay leptons with the ATLAS experiment at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV
• Initial-Final and Initial-Initial antenna functions for real radiation at next-to-leading order
• Zero-jettiness soft function to third order in perturbative QCD
• Determination of the $W$-boson mass at hadron colliders
• Exploring slicing variables for jet processes
• On electroweak corrections to neutral current Drell-Yan with the POWHEG BOX
• Decomposition of Triple Collinear Splitting Functions
• The parton-level structure of Higgs decays to hadrons at N${}^3$LO
• Les Houches 2023 -- Physics at TeV Colliders: Report on the Standard Model Precision Wishlist
• Precision phenomenology with fiducial cross sections in the triple-differential Drell-Yan process
• Pseudoscalar heavy-quarkonium hadroproduction from nonrelativistic fragmentation at NLL/NLO${}^{+}$
• Robust estimates of theoretical uncertainties at fixed-order in perturbation theory
• Jet production at electron-positron colliders at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
• Collinear and TMD distributions with dynamical soft-gluon resolution scale
• Fermionic Electroweak Two-Loop Corrections to Drell-Yan and Related Processes
• Fully differential Higgs boson pair production at N${}^3$LO with top quark mass effects
• Monte Carlo Event Generators for Future Lepton Colliders