TY - JOUR
T1 - Disentangling radiative corrections using the high-mass Drell-Yan process at the LHC
AU - Boughezal, Radja
AU - Li, Ye
AU - Petriello, Francis John
PY - 2014/2/28
Y1 - 2014/2/28
N2 - We present a detailed numerical study of lepton-pair production via the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak at the LHC. Our results consistently combine next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections and next-to-leading order electroweak effects, and include the leading photon-initiated processes using a recent extraction of the photon distribution function. We focus on the effects of electroweak corrections and of photon-photon scattering contributions, and demonstrate which kinematic distributions exhibit sensitivity to these corrections. We show that a combination of measurements allows them to be disentangled and separately determined.
AB - We present a detailed numerical study of lepton-pair production via the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak at the LHC. Our results consistently combine next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections and next-to-leading order electroweak effects, and include the leading photon-initiated processes using a recent extraction of the photon distribution function. We focus on the effects of electroweak corrections and of photon-photon scattering contributions, and demonstrate which kinematic distributions exhibit sensitivity to these corrections. We show that a combination of measurements allows them to be disentangled and separately determined.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897789176&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84897789176&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.034030
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.034030
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84897789176
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 89
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 3
M1 - 034030
ER -