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Report number	arXiv:2001.07717 ; CERN-TH-2020-009 ; MIT-CTP/5174 ; SLAC-PUB-17508
Title	The Drell-Yan cross section to third order in the strong coupling constant
Author(s)	Duhr, Claude (CERN) ; Dulat, Falko (SLAC) ; Mistlberger, Bernhard (MIT, Cambridge, CTP)
Publication	2020-10-23
Imprint	2020-01-21
Number of pages	6
Note	Published version
In:	Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) 172001
DOI	10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.172001
Subject category	hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	We present phenomenological results for the inclusive cross section for the production of a lepton-pair via virtual photon exchange at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative QCD. In line with the case of Higgs production, we find that the hadronic cross section receives corrections at the percent level, and the residual dependence on the perturbative scales is reduced. However, unlike in the Higgs case, we observe that the uncertainty band derived from scale variation is no longer contained in the band of the previous order.
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