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NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume 596, Issue 1-2, Pages 299-312Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00617-9
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We consider the resummation of the logarithmic contributions to the region of small transverse momenta in the distributions of high-mass systems (lepton pairs, vector bosons, Higgs particles,...) produced in hadron collisions. We point out that the resummation formulae that are usually used to compute the distributions in perturbative QCD involve process-dependent form factors and coefficient functions. We present a new universal form of the resummed distribution, in which the dependence on the process is embodied in a single perturbative factor. The new form simplifies the calculation of non-leading logarithms at higher perturbative orders. It can also be useful to systematically implement process-independent non-perturbative effects in transverse-momentum distributions. We also comment on the dependence of these distributions on the factorization and renormalization scales. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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