Speaker
Ms
Dooling Samantha
(DESY)
Description
If studies of electroweak gauge boson final states at the Large Hadron Collider, for Standard
Model physics and beyond, are sensitive to effects of the initial state's transverse momentum
distribution, appropriate generalizations of QCD shower evolution are required. We propose a
method to do this based on QCD transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization at high
energy. The method incorporates experimental information from the high-precision deep inelastic
scattering (DIS) measurements, and includes experimental and theoretical uncertainties on TMD
parton density functions. We illustrate the approach presenting results for production of W-boson
+ n jets at the LHC, including azimuthal correlations and subleading jet distributions.
Primary author
Ms
Dooling Samantha
(DESY)
Co-authors
Francesco Hautmann
(Oxford)
Hannes Jung
(DESY)