High Energy Theory Seminar

29 October 2010

Frank Petriello (University of Wisconsin)

Transverse-momentum Resummation from Effective Field Theory

Abstract:

We present a new approach to the resummation of low transverse-momentum logarithms using Soft-collinear Effective Theory. This method avoids several pitfalls that plague the standard approach. After motivating the importance of this phase-space region for Tevatron and LHC analyses, we explain the approach. Numerical results for production of the W, Z and Higgs bosons at hadron colliders are presented.

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