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Drell-Yan lepton pair production from low to high transverse momentum
Abstract
We present a technique for computing Drell-Yan lepton pair production at particle-level that achieves N3LO and approximate N4LL' accuracy at small to moderate transverse momentum, tree-level precision for Z+4, $5$, and $6$ jets, and approximate NLO EW precision at high transverse momentum. A crucial non-perturbative input, the Collins-Soper kernel, is obtained from continuum-limit lattice QCD results. High-precision theory results are recast into strictly positive event weights using an information-theoretic approach based on the maximum entropy principle.
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BibTeX
@misc{assi2026drellyan,
title = {{Drell-Yan lepton pair production from low to high transverse momentum}},
author = {Benoît Assi and Enrico Bothmann and John Campbell and Christian Gütschow and Stefan Höche and Wan-Li Ju and Max Knobbe and Marek Schönherr and Jesse Thaler and Michael L. Wagman},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.02169},
eprint = {2610.02169},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02169},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Drell-Yan lepton pair production from low to high transverse momentum
AU - Benoît Assi
AU - Enrico Bothmann
AU - John Campbell
AU - Christian Gütschow
AU - Stefan Höche
AU - Wan-Li Ju
AU - Max Knobbe
AU - Marek Schönherr
AU - Jesse Thaler
AU - Michael L. Wagman
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.02169
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02169
AB - We present a technique for computing Drell-Yan lepton pair production at particle-level that achieves N^3LO and approximate N^4LL' accuracy at small to moderate transverse momentum, tree-level precision for Z+4, $5$, and $6$ jets, and approximate NLO EW precision at high transverse momentum. A crucial non-perturbative input, the Collins-Soper kernel, is obtained from continuum-limit lattice QCD results. High-precision theory results are recast into strictly positive event weights using an information-theoretic approach based on the maximum entropy principle.
ER -