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arxiv: 1209.4630 · v1 · pith:QBLBCUIUnew · submitted 2012-09-20 · ✦ hep-ph

Massive Boson Production at Small q_T in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

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keywords productionsmalleffectivelargesoft-collineartheorytransverse-momentumanomaly
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We study the differential cross sections for electroweak gauge-boson and Higgs production at small and very small transverse-momentum q_T. Large logarithms are resummed using soft-collinear effective theory. The collinear anomaly generates a non-perturbative scale q_*, which protects the processes from receiving large long-distance hadronic contributions. A numerical comparison of our predictions with data on the transverse-momentum distribution in Z-boson production at the Tevatron and LHC is given.

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