Effect of flavor-dependent partonic transverse momentum on the determination of the W mass at hadron colliders

9 Apr 2019, 08:56
26m
Palazzo Badini-Confalonieri - Sala Lauree

Palazzo Badini-Confalonieri - Sala Lauree

Via Verdi, 10 Turin
Parallel Session Talk WG4: Hadronic and Electroweak Observables WG4: Hadronic and Electroweak Observables

Speaker

Marco Radici

Description

Within the framework of transverse-momentum-dependent factorization, we investigate for the first time the impact of a flavor-dependent intrinsic transverse momentum of quarks on the production of W bosons in hadronic collisions. We study the transverse-mass, lepton transverse momentum, and missing transverse momentum distributions of the W−decay products by means of a template-fit technique and we estimate the shift in the W boson mass induced by different choices of flavor-dependent parameters for the intrinsic quark transverse momentum. Our findings call for more detailed investigations of flavor-dependent non perturbative effects linked to the proton structure at hadron colliders.

Primary authors

Dr Giuseppe Bozzi (Università di Pavia) Andrea Signori (Argonne National Laboratory) Prof. Alessandro Bacchetta (University of Pavia) Marco Radici

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