TH Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology

Electroweak gauge boson rapidity distributions at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD

Name: Electroweak gauge boson rapidity distributions at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD
Start: 2004-05-14T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2004-05-14T15:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Charalampos Anastasiou (SLAC)

Friday 14 May 2004, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

I will review some of the main motivations for precise predictions for differential distributions of elec-troweak gauge bosons at hadron colliders, and I will describe a new method for computing perturbative QCD corrections for such observables. I will present results for the rapidity distribution of electroweak gauge bosons, and, finally, I will discuss their impact on extracting precise parton densities and proposals for using Drell-Yan production processes as luminosity monitors at the LHC.