Mixed QCD-EW corrections to Drell-Yan processes

Authors

  • Stefan Dittmaier Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Physikalisches Institut, D-79104 Freiburg
  • Alexander Huss Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH, CH-8093 Zurich
  • Christian Schwinn Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23727/CERN-Proceedings-2018-001.223

Keywords:

Electroweak vector bosons, higher-order corrections

Abstract

We review the status of  NNLO QCD--electroweak corrections to W- and Z-boson production at hadron
colliders. We outline the application of the pole approximation to compute the dominant corrections, which arise from
the combination of the QCD corrections to the production with electroweak corrections to the decay of the W/Z~boson.
We compare these results to simpler approximations based on naive products of NLO QCD and electroweak correction factors or leading-logarithmic approximations for QED final-state radiation.

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Published

2018-12-20

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Section

Physics with final-state photons at hadron colliders