Massive Boson Production at Small q_T in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory
arXiv:1209.4630 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.11.020
Abstract
We study the differential cross sections for electroweak gauge-boson and Higgs production at small and very small transverse-momentum q_T. Large logarithms are resummed using soft-collinear effective theory. The collinear anomaly generates a non-perturbative scale q_*, which protects the processes from receiving large long-distance hadronic contributions. A numerical comparison of our predictions with data on the transverse-momentum distribution in Z-boson production at the Tevatron and LHC is given.
PDF LaTeX, 4 pages, 7 pdf figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 16th International Conference in Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD12), 2-6 July 2012, Montpellier