Combined Effect of QCD Resummation and QED Radiative Correction to W boson Observables at the LHC

Abstract

A precise determination of the $W$ boson mass at the CERN LHC requires a theoretical calculation in which the effect of the initial-state multiple soft-gluon emission and the final-state photonic correction are simultaneously included. Here, we present such a calculation and discuss its prediction on a few most relevant distributions of the decay leptons.

Comments: 4 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps figures, submitted to the proceedings of the Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France, 26 May -- 6 June 2003