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Determination of the Transverse Momentum of W Bosons in Hadronic Collisions via Forward Folding Techniques
Samuel WebbKyrylo MerkotanKyrylo MerkotanJakub CúthMatthias Schottsubject
Quantum chromodynamicsPhysicsCondensed Matter::Quantum GasesNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsHadronSpectrum (functional analysis)High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyAstronomy and AstrophysicsFolding (DSP implementation)01 natural sciencesHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)0103 physical sciencesTransverse momentum010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentQuantumBosondescription
The measurement of the transverse momentum of W bosons in hadron collisions provides not only an important test of QCD calculations, but also is an important input for the precision measurement of the W boson mass. While the measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum is experimentally well under control, the available unfolding techniques for the W boson final states lead generically to relatively large uncertainties. In this paper, we present a new methodology to estimate the W boson transverse momentum spectrum, significantly improving the systematic uncertainties of current approaches.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-10 |