521 research outputs found
Electroweak vector boson production in joint resummation
We study the application of the joint resummation to electroweak boson
production at hadron colliders. The joint resummation formalism resums both
threshold and transverse momentum corrections to the transverse momentum
distribution at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We obtain a good
description of the transverse momentum distribution of Z bosons produced at the
Tevatron collider.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented by A. Kulesza at the XXXVIIth
Rencontres de Moriond `QCD and high energy hadronic interactions', Les Arcs,
Franc
The resummed Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution at the LHC
We apply QCD resummation techniques to study the transverse momentum
distribution of Higgs bosons produced via gluon-gluon fusion at the LHC. In
particular we focus on the joint resummation formalism which resums both
threshold and transverse momentum corrections simultaneously. A comparison of
results obtained in the joint and the standard recoil resummation frameworks is
presented.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, uses appolb.cls. Contribution to the Proceedings
of XXVII International Conference of Theoretical Physics, Ustron, Poland,
September 15-21, 2003. To appear in Acta Physica Polonica
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Targets Murine Cytomegalovirus Chromatin for Modification and Associates with Viral Replication Centers
Regulation of viral transcription by chromatin structure has emerged as a fundamental determinant in the establishment of lytic and latent herpesvirus infections. The Polycomb group (PcG) of epigenetic repressors promotes heterochromatin formation by trimethylating histone H3 on lysine-27 (H3K27me3) and regulates development, stem cell renewal and differentiation and the cell cycle. These cellular processes are tightly coupled to the molecular switch between lytic and latent herpesvirus infections. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis, we observed enrichment of H3K27me3 at the major immediate-early (MIE) locus of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) very early following infection of permissive fibroblasts. As lytic replication progressed, we observed a loss of H3K27me3 enrichment concomitant with the appearance of H3K4me3. However, late during infection, as viral replication centers are established, we observed a significant increase in PcG protein association with chromatin. Additionally, in co-immunofluorescence assays using confocal microscopy, we detected strong enrichments for PcG protein within the viral replication compartment, suggesting an association between viral DNA synthesis machinery and PcG proteins. Together, our results suggest a novel, dynamic interaction between PcG epigenetic repressors and MCMV genomes
Same-sign W pair production as a probe of double parton scattering at the LHC
We study the production of same-sign W boson pairs at the LHC in double
parton interactions. Compared with simple factorised double parton
distributions (dPDFs), we show that the recently developed dPDFs, GS09, lead to
non-trivial kinematic correlations between the W bosons. A numerical study of
the prospects for observing this process using same-sign dilepton signatures,
including same-sign WWjj, di-boson and heavy flavour backgrounds, at 14 TeV
centre-of-mass energy is then performed. It is shown that a small excess of
same-sign dilepton events from double parton scattering over a background
dominated by single scattering WZ(gamma*) production could be observed at the
LHC.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures. Added references, slight changes in the text
Non-perturbative effects and the resummed Higgs transverse momentum distribution at the LHC
We investigate the form of the non-perturbative parameterization in both the
impact parameter (b) space and transverse momentum (p_T) space resummation
formalisms for the transverse momentum distribution of single massive bosons
produced at hadron colliders. We propose to analyse data on Upsilon
hadroproduction as a means of studying the non-perturbative contribution in
processes with two gluons in the initial state. We also discuss the theoretical
errors on the resummed Higgs transverse momentum distribution at the LHC
arising from the non-perturbative contribution.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figure
Phenomenological studies in QCD resummation
We study applications of QCD soft-gluon resummations to electroweak
annihilation cross sections. We focus on a formalism that allows to resum
logarithmic corrections arising near partonic threshold and at small transverse
momentum simultaneously.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures as eps files. Talk presented by W.
Vogelsang at the "XVI International Conference on Particles and Nuclei
(PaNic02)", Osaka, Japan, September 200
The q_T spectrum of the Higgs boson at the LHC in QCD perturbation theory
We consider the transverse-momentum (q_T) distribution of Higgs bosons
produced at hadron colliders. We use a formalism that uniformly treats both the
small-q_T and large-q_T regions in QCD perturbation theory. At small q_T (q_T
<< M_H, M_H being the mass of the Higgs boson), we implement an all-order
resummation of logarithmically-enhanced contributions up to
next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. At large q_T (q_T \gtap M_H), we
use fixed-order perturbation theory up to next-to-leading order. The resummed
and fixed-order approaches are consistently matched by avoiding double-counting
in the intermediate-q_T region. In this region, the introduction of unjustified
higher-order terms is avoided by imposing unitarity constraints, so that the
integral of the q_T spectrum exactly reproduces the perturbative result for the
total cross section up to next-to-next-to-leading order. Numerical results at
the LHC are presented. These show that the main features of the q_T
distribution are quite stable with respect to perturbative QCD uncertainties.Comment: 9 pages, 2 postscript figure
Threshold resummation for high-transverse-momentum Higgs production at the LHC
We study the resummation of large logarithmic QCD corrections for the process
pp ->H+ X when the Higgs boson H is produced at high transverse momentum. The
corrections arise near the threshold for partonic reaction and originate from
soft gluon emission. We perform the all-order resummation at next-to-leading
logarithmic accuracy and match the resummed result with the next-to-leading
order perturbative predictions. The effect of resummation on the Higgs
transverse momentum distribution at the LHC is discussed.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure
Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders
The scalar partners of top and bottom quarks are expected to be the lightest
squarks in supersymmetric theories, with potentially large cross sections at
hadron colliders. We present predictions for the production of top and bottom
squarks at the Tevatron and the LHC, including next-to-leading order
corrections in supersymmetric QCD and the resummation of soft gluon emission at
next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy. We discuss the impact of the higher-order
corrections on total cross sections and transverse-momentum distributions, and
provide an estimate of the theoretical uncertainty due to scale variation and
the parton distribution functions.Comment: 29 pages, 6 figure
Gaugino production in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV
Motivated by hints for a light Standard Model-like Higgs boson and a shift in
experimental attention towards electroweak supersymmetry particle production at
the CERN LHC, we update in this paper our precision predictions at
next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD matched to resummation at the
next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for direct gaugino pair production in
proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. Tables of total
cross sections are presented together with the corresponding scale and parton
density uncertainties for benchmark points adopted recently by the experimental
collaborations, and figures are presented for up-to-date model lines attached
to them. Since the experimental analyses are currently obtained with parton
showers matched to multi-parton matrix elements, we also analyze the precision
of this procedure by comparing invariant-mass and transverse-momentum
distributions obtained in this way to those obtained with threshold and
transverse-momentum resummation.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables; version to appear in JHE
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