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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 103, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.113002
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [396021762-TRR 257]
- ERC [804394 HipQCD]
The impact of mixed QCD-electroweak corrections on the production of W and Z bosons at the LHC was studied, showing a potential shift of up to 20 MeV in the extracted W mass value from W decays. To achieve the target precision of W-mass measurement at the LHC, fully differential computations of mixed QCD-electroweak corrections and a careful analysis of their potential impact on W mass determination are necessary.
We study the impact of the recently computed mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the production of W and Z bosons at the LHC on the value of the W mass extracted from the transverse momentum distribution of charged leptons from W decays. Using the average lepton transverse momenta in W and Z decays as simplified observables for the determination of the W mass, we estimate that mixed QCD-electroweak corrections can shift the extracted value of the W mass by up to O(20) MeV, depending on the kinematic cuts employed to define fiducial cross sections for Z and W production. Since the target precision of the W-mass measurement at the LHC is O(10) MeV, our results emphasize the need for fully differential computations of mixed QCD-electroweak corrections and a careful analysis of their potential impact on the determination of the W mass.
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