Electroweak radiative corrections to weak boson production at hadron colliders

✍ Scribed by U. Baur; D. Wackeroth

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 359 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80161-5

✦ Synopsis

We summarize the status of calculations of the electroweak radiative corrections to W and Z boson production via the Drell-Yan mechanism at hadron colliders. To fully exploit the precision physics potential of the highluminosity environment of the Fermilab Tevatron pp (Run II) and the CERN LHC pp colliders, it is crucial that the theoretical predictions are well under control. The envisioned precision physics program includes a precise measurement of the W boson mass and width, and the (leptonic) weak mixing angle, as well as probing the Standard Model (SM) of electroweak interactions at the highest accessible center-of-mass energies. Some numerical results are presented.