The qT subtraction method: electroweak corrections and power suppressed contributions

Building upon the formulation of transverse-momentum resummation for heavy-quark hadroproduction, we present the first application of the q T subtraction formalism to the computation of electroweak corrections to massive lepton pairs through the Drell–Yan mechanism. We then study the power suppressed contributions to the q T subtraction formula in the parameter r cut , defined as the minimum transverse momentum of the lepton pair normalised to its invariant mass. We analytically compute the leading power correction from initial and final-state radiation to the inclusive cross section. In the case of initial-state radiation the power correction is quadratic in r cut and our analytic result is consistent with results previously obtained in the literature. Final-state radiation produces linear contributions in r cut that may challenge the efficiency of the q T subtraction procedure. We explicitly compute the linear power correction in the case of the inclusive cross section and we discuss the extension of our calculation to differential distributions.