TY  - JOUR
AU  - Alekhin, S.
AU  - Amoroso, S.
AU  - Buonocore, L.
AU  - Huss, A.
AU  - Kallweit, S.
AU  - Kardos, A.
AU  - Michel, J.
AU  - Moch, Sven-Olaf
AU  - Petriello, F.
AU  - Rottoli, L.
AU  - Trócsányi, Z.
AU  - Wiesemann, M.
TI  - Status of QCD precision predictions for Drell–Yan rapidity distributions
JO  - The European physical journal / C
VL  - 85
IS  - 4
SN  - 1434-6044
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - PUBDB-2025-04361
M1  - arXiv:2405.19714
M1  - DESY 24-073
M1  - CERN-TH-2024-068
M1  - ZU-TH 26/24
M1  - MPP-2024-106
SP  - 406
PY  - 2025
N1  - 41 pages LaTeX, 19 figures, 6 tables (journal version EPJC)
AB  - We compute differential distributions for Drell–Yan processes at the LHC and the Tevatron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD, including fiducial cuts on the decay leptons in the final state. The comparison of predictions obtained with four different codes shows excellent agreement, once linear power corrections from the fiducial cuts are included in those codes that rely on phase-space slicing subtraction schemes. For Z-boson production we perform a detailed study of the symmetric cuts on the transverse momenta of the decay leptons. Predictions at fixed order in perturbative QCD for those symmetric cuts, typically imposed in experiments, suffer from an instability. We show how this can be remedied by an all-order resummation of the fiducial transverse momentum spectrum, and we comment on the choice of cuts for future experimental analyses.
KW  - quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory (INSPIRE)
KW  - higher-order: 2 (INSPIRE)
KW  - transverse momentum: momentum spectrum (INSPIRE)
KW  - Drell-Yan process (INSPIRE)
KW  - resummation (INSPIRE)
KW  - stability (INSPIRE)
KW  - CERN LHC Coll (INSPIRE)
KW  - Batavia TEVATRON Coll (INSPIRE)
KW  - phase space (INSPIRE)
KW  - Z0: production (INSPIRE)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14027-x
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/639241
ER  -