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roman pasechnik

Roman Pasechnik

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roman pasechnik

The landscape of W± and Z bosons produced in pp collisions up to LHC energies

Author

  • Eduardo Basso
  • Claude Bourrely
  • Roman Pasechnik
  • Jacques Soffer

Summary, in English

We consider a selection of recent experimental results on electroweak W±,Z gauge boson production in pp collisions at BNL RHIC and CERN LHC energies in comparison to prediction of perturbative QCD calculations based on different sets of NLO parton distribution functions including the statistical PDF model known from fits to the DIS data. We show that the current statistical PDF parametrization (fitted to the DIS data only) underestimates the LHC data on W±,Z gauge boson production cross sections at the NLO by about 20%. This suggests that there is a need to refit the parameters of the statistical PDF including the latest LHC data.

Department/s

  • Theoretical Particle Physics - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2017-10-01

Language

English

Pages

113-123

Publication/Series

Nuclear Physics A

Volume

966

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Drell–Yan process
  • Electroweak gauge bosons
  • Parton distribution functions

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0375-9474