High Order QCD Predictions for Inclusive Production of Bosons in Collisions at TeV
Hasan Ogul (Department of Physics, Sinop University, Korucuk, 57000 Sinop, Turkey, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA)
; Kamuran Dilsiz (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA); Emrah Tiras (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA); Ping Tan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA); Yasar Onel (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA); et al - Show all 6 authors
Predictions of fiducial cross sections, differential cross sections, and lepton charge asymmetry are presented for the production of bosons with leptonic decay up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. Differential cross sections of bosons and boson lepton charge asymmetry are computed as a function of lepton pseudorapidity for a defined fiducial region in collisions at TeV. Numerical results of fiducial cross section predictions are presented with the latest modern PDF models at next-to-leading order (NLO) and NNLO. It is found that the CT14 and NNPDF 3.0 predictions with NNLO QCD corrections are about 4% higher than the NLO CT14 and NNPDF 3.0 predictions while MMHT 2014 predictions with NLO QCD corrections are smaller than its NNLO QCD predictions by approximately 6%. In addition, the NNLO QCD corrections reduce the scale variation uncertainty on the cross section by a factor of 3.5. The prediction of central values and considered uncertainties are obtained using FEWZ 3.1 program.
