• Title of article

    What does the W transverse momentum distribution say about the W+1 jet/W+0 jet ratio?

  • Author/Authors

    E.W.N. Glover، نويسنده , , D.J. Summers، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    363
  • To page
    368
  • Abstract
    We compute the W transverse momentum distribution at large transverse momentum at fixed next-to-leading order (i.e. O(αs2)) and find good agreement with the preliminary measurements reported by DØ . We find that the W transverse momentum distribution is typically significantly larger than the exclusive one-jet rate for a given value of pTW or ETjet, mainly because two or more jet events are excluded. As a consequence, we find that theoretically the W+1 jet to W+0 jet ratio R10 is smaller than the analogous quantity defined in terms of pTW, RW. This hierarchy is preserved under changes of renormalisation/factorisation scales, strong coupling constant and jet algorithm. However, this appears to be in contradiction with the preliminary experimental results which suggest R10>RW.
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Serial Year
    1998
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Record number

    909362