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arxiv: hep-ph/0309096 · v5 · submitted 2003-09-09 · ✦ hep-ph

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Unintegrated parton distributions and electroweak boson production at hadron colliders

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keywords distributionspartonbosoncalculatedoubly-unintegratedgeneratedmomentumproduction
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We describe the use of doubly-unintegrated parton distributions in hadron-hadron collisions, using the (z,k_t)-factorisation prescription where the transverse momentum of the incoming parton is generated in the last evolution step. We apply this formalism to calculate the transverse momentum (P_T) distributions of produced W and Z bosons and compare the predictions to Tevatron Run 1 data. We find that the observed P_T distributions can be generated almost entirely by the leading order q_1 q_2 -> W,Z subprocesses, using known and universal doubly-unintegrated quark distributions. We also calculate the P_T distribution of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the LHC, where the dominant production mechanism is by gluon-gluon fusion.

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