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In this work we extend the qT -subtraction formalism, originally developed for QCD corrections, to the case of mixed QCD⊗QED corrections, and apply it to the fully exclusive calculation of the \( \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s\alpha \right) \) contribution to the production of an off-shell Z boson in hadronic collisions. We present explicit results for the subtraction term and the hard factor, therefore providing all the ingredients needed for the application of the formalism up to \( \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s\alpha \right) \). To study the phenomenological impact we consider the decay of the off-shell Z boson into a pair of neutrinos, and present kinematical distributions for the final-state leptons at LHC energies.
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Cieri, L., de Florian, D., Der, M. et al. Mixed QCD⊗QED corrections to exclusive Drell Yan production using the qT -subtraction method. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 155 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2020)155
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