A Mellin space program for W^ and Z^0 production at NNLO

DOI10.1002/PROP.201100053zbMATH Open1242.81131arXiv1104.4968OpenAlexW3100098851MaRDI QIDQ2889680FDOQ2889680

Authors: P. Kovačíková 

Publication date: 8 June 2012

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a program for the evaluation of full unpolarized cross sections for the W^{+/-} and Z^0 production in the narrow width approximation at NNLO in perturbative QCD using Mellin space techniques.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4968

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zbMATH Keywords

Mellin transformQCDperturbative expansionfactorisationPDFs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-04)

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• HARMONIC POLYLOGARITHMS
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• HARMONIC SUMS, MELLIN TRANSFORMS AND INTEGRALS
• The third-order QCD corrections to deep-inelastic scattering by photon exchange
• Analytic continuation of Mellin transforms up to two-loop order
• Structural relations of harmonic sums and Mellin transforms up to weight \(w=5\)

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• Near-threshold production of \(W^\pm\), \(Z^0\), and \(H^0\) at a fixed-target experiment at the future ultrahigh-energy proton colliders

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