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In view of recent discussions concerning the possibly limiting energy resolution systematics on the measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum distribution at hadron colliders, we propose a novel measurement method based on the angular distributions of the decay leptons. We also introduce a phenomenological parametrization of the transverse momentum distribution that adapts well to all currently available predictions, a useful tool to quantify their differences.
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Boonekamp, M., Schott, M. Z boson transverse momentum spectrum from the lepton angular distributions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 153 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2010)153
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