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.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.117.022001

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.

Authors

A. Gehrmann-De Ridder

T. Gehrmann

Professor Nigel Glover e.w.n.glover@durham.ac.uk
Professor

A. Huss

T.A. Morgan

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
Related Public URLs	https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02850

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