Radiative corrections to W-boson hadroproduction: Higher-order electroweak and supersymmetric effects

Author(s)
Silja Brensing, Stefan Dittmaier, Michael Krämer, Alexander Mück
Abstract

The high accuracy envisaged for future measurements of W-boson production at hadron colliders has to be matched by precise theoretical predictions. We study the impact of electroweak radiative corrections on W-boson production cross sections and differential distributions at the Tevatron and at the LHC. In particular, we include photon-induced processes, which contribute at O(alpha), and leading radiative corrections beyond O(alpha) in the high-energy Sudakov regime and from multi-photon final-state radiation. We furthermore present the calculation of the complete supersymmetric next-to-leading-order electroweak and QCD corrections to W-boson hadroproduction within the MSSM. The supersymmetric corrections turn out to be negligible in the vicinity of the W resonance in general, reaching the percent level only at high lepton transverse momentum and for specific choices of the supersymmetric parameters.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Journal
Physical Review D
Volume
77
ISSN
1550-7998
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.073006
Publication date
2008
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
1030 Physics, Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/radiative-corrections-to-wboson-hadroproduction-higherorder-electroweak-and-supersymmetric-effects(167d4512-3911-46e9-b8a4-60dc3b5b536b).html