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Neutral-current Drell–Yan with combined QCD and electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX

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Following recent work on the combination of electroweak and strong radiative corrections to single W-boson hadroproduction in the POWHEG BOX framework, we generalize the above treatment to cover the neutral-current Drell–Yan process. According to the POWHEG method, we combine both the next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak and the QED multiple photon corrections with the native NLO and Parton Shower QCD contributions. We show comparisons with the predictions of the electroweak generator HORACE, to validate the reliability and accuracy of the approach. We also present phenomenological results obtained with the new tool for physics studies at the LHC.

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  1. See http://powhegbox.mib.infn.it for an updated list of all available processes.

  2. Further studies on combining QCD and EW corrections to W/Z hadroproduction are described in Refs. [21–27].

  3. We use PHOTOS with leading log kernels, i.e. without process-dependent matrix element corrections already included in our approach in the exact NLO calculation.

  4. Partial results exist in the literature and are given by the one-loop EW corrections to W/Z+jet production at finite transverse momentum [35–38], NLO QCD corrections to the W/Z+γ process [39–41] and two-loop virtual \(O(\alpha_{\rm em} \alpha_{s})\) corrections to the NC DY [42]. However, the complete and non-trivial combination of all the above substructures is still unavailable.

  5. Note that HORACE implements completely independent EW form factors and real photon matrix elements, computed in the mass regularization scheme.

  6. The CKM mixing matrix is set to the identity matrix in the calculation of EW loop corrections.

  7. Note that we do not take into account in our calculation the contribution due to real radiation of massive gauge bosons, which is known [47, 48] to partially compensate the negative virtual Sudakov-like corrections.

  8. We used the data available at the HepData repository http://hepdata.cedar.ac.uk.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to various colleagues of the LHC and Tevatron communities for interest in our work and many useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Union under the Grant Agreement number PITN-GA-2010-264564 (LHCPhenoNet), and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the PRIN program 2010-2011. The work of L.B. is supported by the ERC grant 291377, “LHCtheory—Theoretical predictions and analyses of LHC physics: advancing the precision frontier”. F.P. would like to thank the CERN PH-TH Department for partial support and hospitality during several stages of the work.

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    Luca Barzè & Alessandro Vicini

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia and INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Via A. Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Guido Montagna

  3. INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Paolo Nason

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    Oreste Nicrosini & Fulvio Piccinini

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Alessandro Vicini

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Barzè, L., Montagna, G., Nason, P. et al. Neutral-current Drell–Yan with combined QCD and electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX. Eur. Phys. J. C 73, 2474 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2474-y

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