QCD prediction for heavy boson transverse momentum distributions

Authors
Citation
Jw. Qiu et Xf. Zhang, QCD prediction for heavy boson transverse momentum distributions, PHYS REV L, 86(13), 2001, pp. 2724-2727
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
86
Issue
13
Year of publication
2001
Pages
2724 - 2727
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20010326)86:13<2724:QPFHBT>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We investigate the predictive power of the Collins, Soper, and Sterman b-sp ace QCD resummation formalism for transverse momentum (Q(T)) distributions of heavy boson production in hadronic collisions. We show that the predicti ve power has a strong dependence on the collision energy rootS in addition to its well known Q(2) dependence, and the rootS dependence improves the pr edictive power at collider energies. We demonstrate that, at the Fermilab T evatron and the CERN LHC energies, the Q(T) distributions derived from b-sp ace resummation are not sensitive to the nonperturbative input at large b, and give good descriptions of the Q(T) distributions of heavy boson product ion at all transverse momenta Q(T) less than or equal to Q.