Precise QCD predictions for the production of a Z boson in association with a hadronic jet

Gehrmann-De Ridder, A.; Gehrmann, T.; Glover, E.W.N.; Huss, A.; Morgan, T.A.

Abstract

We compute the cross section and differential distributions for the production of a Z boson in association with a hadronic jet to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, including the leptonic decay of the Z boson. We present numerical results for the transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of both the Z boson and the associated jet at the LHC. We find that the NNLO corrections increase the NLO predictions by approximately 1% and significantly reduce the scale variation uncertainty.

Citation

Gehrmann-De Ridder, A., Gehrmann, T., Glover, E., Huss, A., & Morgan, T. (2016). Precise QCD predictions for the production of a Z boson in association with a hadronic jet. Physical Review Letters, 117(2), Article 022001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.022001

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 16, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jul 6, 2016
• Publication Date: Jul 6, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 26, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 28, 2016
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Print ISSN: 0031-9007
• Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 117
• Issue: 2
• Article Number: 022001
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.022001
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1400402
• Related Public URLs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02850