W-Boson Production with Large Transverse Momentum at the LHC

Authors

Nikolaos Kidonakis, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow
Richard J. Gonsalves, SUNY Buffalo
Agustin Sabio Vera, CERN

Department

Physics

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

We study W-boson production with large transverse momentum, Q_T, in pp collisions at the LHC. We calculate the complete NLO corrections and the soft-gluon NNLO corrections to the differential cross section. The NLO corrections are large but they do not reduce the scale dependence relative to LO, while the NNLO soft-gluon corrections, although small, significantly reduce the scale dependence and thus provide a more stable result.

Journal Title

arXiv e-print

Comments

Presented at the XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2006), Tsukuba, Japan, April 20-24, 2006.