S. Frixione et al., Problems in the resummation of soft-gluon effects in the transverse-momentum distributions of massive vector bosons in hadronic collisions, NUCL PHYS B, 542(1-2), 1999, pp. 311-328
We consider the resummation of soft-gluon emission in the transverse-moment
um distribution of vector mesons in hadronic collisions. We find that the r
esummed expression in the impact-parameter formulation has an expansion in
alpha(s) with factorially growing terms with oscillating signs. These diver
ging terms arise from the small impact-parameter region of integration, and
are of a subleading nature. We also obtain a closed expression for the nex
t-to-leading logarithm resummation in qT-space, and we study its analytic s
tructure. We find in this case that. although no factorially growing terms
are present, there are geometrical singularities that severely restrict the
range of applicability of the resummation formula, (C) 1999 Elsevier Scien
ce B.V.