NNLL resummation for W-boson production at large pT

Abstract

We present new results for W-boson production at large transverse momentum at the LHC and the Tevatron. The contribution of soft-gluon corrections is derived from NNLL resummation and added to the exact NLO result. Numerical results and their uncertainties for the approximate NNLO W-boson transverse momentum distributions are derived and compared to recent data from the LHC.

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures; presented at ICHEP 2012, Melbourne, Australia, July 4-11, 2012