Combined Effect of QCD Resummation and QED Radiative Correction to W boson Observables at t.pdfVIP

hep-ph/0401171 Combined Effect of QCD Resummation and QED Radiative Correction to W boson Mass Measurement at the LHC∗ Qing-Hong Cao and C.-P. Yuan Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, USA Abstract 4 0 A precise determination of the W boson mass at the CERN LHC requires a the- 0 oretical calculation in which the effect of the initial-state multiple soft-gluon 2 emission and the final-state photonic correction are simultaneously included . n Here, we present such a calculation and discuss its prediction on a few most a J relevant distributions of the decay leptons. 2 2 1. INTRODUCTION 1 As a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model (SM), the mass of the W -boson (MW ) is of particular v 1 importance. Aside from being an important test of the SM itself, a precision measurement of MW , 7 together with an improved measurement of top quark mass (M ), provides severe indirect bounds on the t 1 1 mass of Higgs boson (MH ). With a precision of 15 MeV for MW [1] and 2 GeV for Mt at the LHC [2], 0 MH in the SM can be predicted with an uncertainty of about 30% [1]. Comparison of these indirect 4 constraints on MH with the results from direct Higgs boson searches, at the LEP2, the Tevatron and the 0 / CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will be an important test of the SM. In order to have a precision h measurement of MW , the theoretical uncertainties, dominantly coming from the transverse momentum