Abstract
We present a detailed phenomenological study of Z-boson production in association with a jet through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. Fiducial cross sections and differential distributions for both 8 TeV and 13 TeV LHC collisions are presented. We study the impact of different parton distribution functions (PDFs) on predictions for the Z+jet process. Upon inclusion of the NNLO corrections, the residual scale uncertainty is reduced such that both the total rate and the transverse momentum distributions can be used to discriminate between various PDF sets.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 074015 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 94 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 10 2016 |
Funding
We thank T. LeCompte for helpful discussions. R.B. is supported by DOE Contract No.DE-AC02-06CH11357. X.L. is supported by DOE Grant No.DE-FG02-93ER-40762. F.P. is supported by DOE Grants No.DE-FG02-91ER40684 and No.DE-AC02-06CH11357. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231. It also used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract No.DE-AC02-06CH11357.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)