NNLO Logarithmic Expansions and High Precision Determinations of the QCD background at the LHC: The case of the Z resonance

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dc.creatorCafarella, Alessandro
dc.creatorCoriano, Claudio
dc.creatorGuzzi, Marco
dc.date2007-09-13
dc.date2007-09-14
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dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:22:17Z
dc.descriptionNew methods of solutions of the DGLAP equation and their implementation through NNLO in QCD are briefly reviewed. We organize the perturbative expansion that describes in $x$-space the evolved parton distributions in terms of scale invariant functions, which are determined recursively, and logarithms of the ratio of the running couplings at the initial and final evolution scales. Resummed solutions are constructed within the same approach and involve logarithms of more complex functions, which are given in the non-singlet case. Differences in the evolution schemes are shown to be numerically sizeable and intrinsic to perturbation theory. We illustrate these points in the case of Drell-Yan lepton pair production near the Z resonance, analysis that can be extended to searches of extra $Z^{\prime}$. We show that the reduction of the NNLO cross section compared to the NLO prediction may be attributed to the NNLO evolution.
dc.description5 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at QCD@work 2007, Martina Franca, Italy, 16-20 June 2007. To be published in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) conference proceedings
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2115
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2115
dc.identifierAIP Conf.Proc.964:206-211,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2823851
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/213598
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleNNLO Logarithmic Expansions and High Precision Determinations of the QCD background at the LHC: The case of the Z resonance
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