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Z Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution, and ZZ and WZ Production

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This thesis documents two analyses performed with the large sample of dielectron and dimuon events collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The first analysis takes a novel approach to the long studied Drell-Yan transverse momentum distribution, which probes higher order effects in Quantum chromodynamics.

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Notes

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    At the Plank scale quantum effects on gravity become significant. The Plank scale is defined as \(\Lambda _\mathrm{Plank} = (8\pi G_N)^{-1/2} \approx 10^{19}\) GeV, where \(G_N\) is the gravitational constant.

  2. 2.

    A right-(left-) handed particle has its spin and momentum vector pointing in the same (opposite) direction.

  3. 3.

    All exclusions that are quoted in this section are at 95 % C.L.

  4. 4.

    The matching procedure must ensure that perturbative terms are not double counted by the fixed order and resummed calculations.

  5. 5.

    The underlying event is activity that is not associated with the hard parton-parton scattering, e.g., the hadron remnants or multiple parton scattering.

  6. 6.

    This measurement was translated from the observable \(ZZ/\gamma ^*\) cross section to a “pure” \(ZZ\) cross section.

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Vesterinen, M. (2012). Introduction and Theoretical Background. In: Z Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution, and ZZ and WZ Production. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30788-1_1

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