Dilepton Rapidity Distribution in Drell-Yan Production to Third Order in QCD

We compute for the first time the lepton-pair rapidity distribution in the photon-mediated Drell-Yan process to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The calculation is based on the q_{T}-subtraction method, suitably extended to this order for quark-antiquark initiated Born processes. Our re...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 128; no. 5; p. 052001
Main Authors Chen, Xuan, Gehrmann, Thomas, Glover, Nigel, Huss, Alexander, Yang, Tong-Zhi, Zhu, Hua Xing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 04.02.2022
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Summary:We compute for the first time the lepton-pair rapidity distribution in the photon-mediated Drell-Yan process to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The calculation is based on the q_{T}-subtraction method, suitably extended to this order for quark-antiquark initiated Born processes. Our results display sizeable QCD corrections at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order over the full rapidity region and provide a fully independent confirmation of the recent results for the total Drell-Yan cross section at this order.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.052001