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Small-transverse-momentum resummation is essential for making the precise ATLAS 13 TeV Z-boson measurement compatible with global PDF fits, and the apparent PDF shifts at fixed order are largely artifacts of missing logarithmic corrections.

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arxiv 2607.19183 v1 pith:NXIE7S47 submitted 2026-07-21 hep-ph hep-ex

Impact of Z-boson transverse-momentum resummation on PDF determination

Juan M. Cruz-Martinez , Emanuele R. Nocera , Luca Rottoli , Paolo Torrielli This is my paper
classification hep-ph hep-ex
keywords parton distribution functionsZ-boson transverse momentumsmall-pT resummationN3LL' accuracyDrell-Yan productionLHC precision measurementstheory covariance matrixNNPDF methodology
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper establishes that the high-precision ATLAS 13 TeV Z-boson transverse-momentum measurement can only be brought into agreement with the rest of the global data used for PDF determination once all-order small-pT resummation corrections are included. At fixed order the data are inconsistent (chi2 per point around 8) and induce shifts in the strange and gluon PDFs, including a distortion that would affect Higgs production predictions. With N3LL' resummation applied as a multiplicative K-factor, the ATLAS chi2 per point drops to roughly 4, the PDFs return to values compatible with the baseline fit, and the gluon PDF is stabilized. The paper also finds that lowering the pT cut below 30 GeV is not yet supported, because the treatment of correlations among theoretical uncertainties becomes the limiting factor.

Core claim

The central claim, stated on the paper's own terms, is that small-pT resummation corrections are not an optional refinement but fundamental for the compatibility of the very precise 13 TeV ATLAS Z-boson pT measurements with the baseline data set, even with a conservative pT >= 30 GeV cut. The apparent PDF distortions induced by these data at fixed order — a 5% depletion of the strange sea at low x and a 2.5% suppression of the gluon at x less than about 10^-3 with an enhancement near x around 0.03 — are largely mitigated once resummation is included. The impact on PDFs is moderate and manifests mainly as a stabilization of the gluon PDF in the x-region relevant for LHC phenomenology.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is a bin-by-bin resummation K-factor, K_RES = (d(sigma_RES+FO)/dpT)/(d(sigma_FO)/dpT), which rescales NNLO fixed-order predictions for the Z-pT spectrum by the ratio of RadISH N3LL'-resummed to fixed-order cross sections. The K-factor is computed with a fixed input PDF set (the previous NNPDF4.0 nominal set) and then applied multiplicatively to the data in the PDF fit; missing higher-order uncertainties are included through a theory covariance matrix built from 7-point renormalisation- and factorisation-scale variations. This K-factor is what converts an inconsistent data set into a compatible one, and the paper explicitly notes that testing its faithfulness requir

Load-bearing premise

The central conclusion depends on the approximation that resummation can be applied as a bin-by-bin multiplicative K-factor computed with a fixed PDF set, without reweighting individual partonic channels; if partonic-channel dependence matters, the improved compatibility of the 13 TeV data could be an artifact.

What would settle it

Compute the Z-pT spectrum with an exact resummed interpolation grid (e.g., interfacing RadISH with PineAPPL) for the ATLAS 13 TeV kinematics and compare the resulting fit chi2 and PDFs with the K-factor-based fit; if the exact fit shows chi2 per point above 6 or restores the fixed-order PDF distortions, the paper's central claim fails.

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If this is right

  • Future global PDF analyses should include resummed Z-pT predictions while retaining the 30 GeV cut; otherwise the 13 TeV ATLAS data would distort PDFs and degrade fit quality.
  • The gluon PDF in the region relevant for gluon-fusion Higgs production is stabilized, so precision predictions for the Higgs cross section are unlikely to be significantly altered by the new Z-pT data once resummation is included.
  • Numerically stable NNLOjet predictions allow removal of the extra 1% uncorrelated uncertainty previously assigned to 8 TeV Z-pT data, without significant PDF distortion.
  • Extending fits to pT below about 30 GeV is not yet justified; the current correlation model for theoretical uncertainties is too restrictive in the low-pT region.
  • Determination of alpha_s from global fits could benefit from resummed low-pT data, given the sensitivity of the pT peak to the strong coupling.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the K-factor approximation is as accurate as the paper suggests, resummation should be standard practice for any high-precision DY observable entering PDF fits, including phi* and W-pT measurements; the mechanism is generic, not specific to the ATLAS 13 TeV data.
  • The residual chi2 of about 4 for the ATLAS 13 TeV data suggests that resummation resolves most, but not all, of the tension; the remaining discrepancy is a candidate signal of underestimated experimental correlations or of non-perturbative effects, separable only by an exact resummed-grid implementation.
  • One could test the correlation model directly: if scale variations are decoupled between low- and high-pT regions, the low-pT deterioration seen in the paper should largely disappear, which would mean the current theory covariance matrix is overcorrelated.
  • A closure test using resummed pseudodata would establish whether the K-factor method biases PDFs; the paper's approximation could be validated or falsified without waiting for a full RadISH-PineAPPL interface.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper investigates the impact of small-transverse-momentum resummation for neutral-current Drell-Yan production on collinear PDF determination. Using the NNPDF methodology, the authors include ATLAS and CMS Z-boson pT measurements at 8 and 13 TeV. Fixed-order NNLO predictions are supplemented with N3LL' RadISH resummation implemented as bin-by-bin K-factors (Eq. 2.5). A staged series of PDF fits is performed: first revisiting the 8 TeV data with exact NNLOjet predictions and removing the previous 1% numerical uncertainty; then adding the 13 TeV ATLAS/CMS data; then applying resummation with fixed and progressively lowered pT cuts. The main findings are that resummation markedly improves the description of the 13 TeV ATLAS data (chi2 per point from 7.83 to 3.94), stabilizes the extracted PDFs, and that lowering the pT cut below 30 GeV leads to deteriorating fit quality, partly attributed to the treatment of theory-uncertainty correlations.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the paper provides important guidance for future global PDF fits: small-pT resummation should be included even with a conservative pT>30 GeV cut, and apparent PDF distortions from the 13 TeV ATLAS Z-pT data at fixed order are largely artifacts of missing logarithmic corrections. The paper is also valuable as a methodological demonstration: it uses exact NNLO interpolation grids, full-colour dijet predictions, a theory covariance matrix, and a careful staged comparison of data sets and cuts. The availability of the PDF sets from the authors is a useful resource. However, the central mechanism is tested only through an approximate K-factor that is PDF-dependent and does not reweight partonic channels, and the residual chi2 remains significantly above one even after resummation; these issues need to be addressed before the 'essential' conclusion can be considered fully established.

major comments (3)
  1. [Eq. (2.5), Sect. 3.3.1] The central claim that resummation is 'essential' for compatibility of the 13 TeV ATLAS data is tested only through the multiplicative K-factor K_RES = (dσ_RES+FO)/(dσ_FO), evaluated once with the previous NNPDF4.0 PDF set. As the paper itself states in Sect. 3.3.1, this approach does not reweight individual partonic channels and is PDF-dependent. Since K_RES is a few percent in the fitted pT>30 GeV region while the ATLAS 13 TeV data have sub-percent uncertainties, the improvement from 7.83 to 3.94 and the gluon stabilization could in principle be an artifact of using a fixed, PDF-dependent rescaling. The analogy with NNLO K-factors [121] is not a substitute for a validation of the resummation K-factor. I request a quantitative robustness test, e.g., recomputing K_RES with an alternative input PDF set or with PDFs from the fitted ensemble, or a comparison with an exact RadISH-PineAPPL im
  2. [Sect. 2.2.3] The theory covariance matrix is built only from renormalisation- and factorisation-scale variations; resummation-scale variations are explicitly excluded. The paper states that 'its effect is marginal' and refers to Sect. 3.3, but I could not find any numerical evidence supporting this claim. Given that the analysis is precisely about the low-pT region where resummation effects are largest, the omission is load-bearing. The authors should either include the resummation-scale variation in the covariance matrix or provide a dedicated test (e.g., varying Q between m_ll/2, m_ll, and 2m_ll) showing the impact on the ATLAS 13 TeV chi2 and on the PDFs. Without such a test, the quoted improvement cannot be distinguished from a particular choice of resummation scale.
  3. [Table 3.4, Sect. 3.3.1] The paper describes the improvement of the ATLAS 13 TeV description from chi2/Ndat=7.83 to 3.94 as making the data 'compatible' with the baseline data set. However, a chi2 per point of 3.94 still represents a very poor description for 19 data points. Appendix A confirms that even heavily weighting the data set only reduces this to 3.57 while severely degrading the global fit, leading the authors to conclude that the measurement may have underestimated uncertainties. This should be reflected more carefully in the abstract and conclusions: resummation substantially improves but does not fully restore consistency. The current wording overstates the strength of the conclusion.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sect. 2.2.2] Please clarify the resummation scale choice: Eq. (2.2) defines Q~m_ll, and the text says 'we choose Q=m_ll/2', but Fig. 2.1 appears to use a single scale. A brief sentence on the sensitivity to this choice would help.
  2. [Table 3.2 and Table 3.3] The total number of data points Ndat is reported as 4551 for the baseline and all subsequent fits, but the 13 TeV ATLAS and CMS data are added in Tables 3.3 and 3.4. The text states that 'the total number of data points does not include the data points in the 13 TeV ATLAS and CMS data sets', but this convention should also be stated in the main text where the total chi2 is discussed.
  3. [Footnote 2] The footnote about the contradiction with Ref. [175] is useful but somewhat terse. Please specify precisely which 'mismatch in the accounting of experimental uncertainties' was identified, to allow the reader to assess the claim.
  4. [Sect. 3.3.2, Table 3.6] The 'diagonal' and 'envelope' prescriptions used as diagnostics produce anomalously small chi2 values. It would be helpful to state explicitly whether these prescriptions are used only as diagnostics and are not recommended for production fits, to avoid misinterpretation.
  5. [General] There are occasional formatting issues in the equations and tables, such as the rendering of 'p_ll_T' and the use of 'N dat' in the text. These should be corrected in the final version.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the resummation K-factor is a theory input computed with a previous PDF set, not fitted to the 13 TeV data; the central claim rests on direct chi2 comparisons. Score 2 reflects minor caveats (PDF-dependent K-factor, one supporting self-citation), not a circular derivation.

full rationale

The central derivation is self-contained against data. Predictions are built from NNLO fixed order (NNLOjet) plus RadISH N3LL' resummation (eqs. 2.1-2.4); the K-factor in eq. (2.5) is a ratio of resummed to fixed-order spectra evaluated once with the NNPDF4.0 PDF set of [58]. It is not a fitted parameter, and the ATLAS 13 TeV data are not used in constructing it, so the improvement reported in Table 3.4 (ATLAS 13 TeV chi2/Ndat from 7.83 to 3.94) is a genuine data-theory comparison rather than a fitted quantity renamed as a prediction. The paper explicitly flags the K-factor approximation in Sect. 3.3.1: "K-factors rescale the cross section by a bin-dependent multiplicative correction that does not reweigh individual partonic channels," and leaves exact RadISH-PineAPPL interfacing to future work. This is a limitation/approximation, not a circular reduction: the correction is still first-principles resummation, and the target data were not used to tune it. The only self-citation with potential support role is ref. [121], invoked to argue that DY K-factor approximations are adequate; it has overlapping authorship but is not the main evidence for the conclusions. No uniqueness theorem, no ansatz smuggled via citation, and no renaming of known results were found. Score 2 reflects these minor caveats; the derivation itself is not circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard QCD factorization and on two specific modeling choices that are acknowledged approximations: the K-factor implementation of resummation and the correlation structure of the MHOU covariance matrix. No new particles or forces are introduced; the only tuned numbers are standard scale and cut choices.

free parameters (4)
  • Resummation scale Q = m_ll/2
    Chosen by hand below eq. (2.2); not varied in the theory covariance matrix despite being an additional scale in resummed predictions; affects K_RES.
  • Central renormalisation/factorisation scale = sqrt(pT^2 + m_ll^2)
    Adopted consistently for all DY data in this paper; changes fixed-order predictions and the matched K-factors.
  • Modified-log switch parameter p in RadISH = 6
    RadISH default controlling the smooth switch-off of resummation at hard transverse momentum; introduces controlled power corrections and is not fitted.
  • Large-pT cut = 150 GeV
    Applied to all Z-pT data to exclude the region where electroweak Sudakov logarithms become large; inherited from prior NNPDF fits and not varied in this study.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption Collinear QCD factorization and NNLO fixed-order cross sections from NNLOjet describe the Z-boson transverse-momentum spectrum in the fitted region.
    Standard QCD framework; invoked throughout Sect. 2.2.1. If wrong, all fits collapse.
  • domain assumption RadISH N3LL' resummation correctly sums the logarithmic corrections for pT/m_ll and the additive matching to NNLO is valid.
    Sect. 2.2.2, eqs. (2.1)-(2.5). Relies on external code and prior papers.
  • ad hoc to paper Resummation can be approximated by bin-by-bin K-factors evaluated with NNPDF4.0 PDFs.
    Sect. 3.3.1 explicitly calls this an approximation and leaves an exact RadISH-PineAPPL implementation to future work; it is load-bearing for the main conclusion.
  • domain assumption The 7-point scale-variation theory covariance matrix, with renormalisation-scale variations correlated within processes and factorisation-scale variations correlated across all data, is a valid estimator of missing higher-order uncertainties.
    Sect. 2.2.3. The paper's own Table 3.6 and Sect. 3.3.2 show that conclusions depend strongly on this correlation model.
  • domain assumption Electroweak corrections are negligible in the fitted region pT <= 150 GeV.
    Sect. 2.1; the cut is motivated by Fig. 6 of Ref. [32]. If wrong, high-pT bins bias the fit.

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We study the impact of small-transverse-momentum resummation for neutral-current Drell-Yan lepton-pair production on the determination of collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs). We focus on measurements of the Z-boson transverse-momentum spectrum performed by ATLAS and CMS at the LHC at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, and include them in PDF fits based on the NNPDF methodology. Theoretical predictions are computed at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD and are supplemented with small-transverse-momentum resummation corrections at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy obtained with RadISH. Missing higher-order uncertainties are accounted for through a theory covariance matrix constructed from renormalisation- and factorisation-scale variations. We first revisit the treatment of the 8 TeV data, replacing the fixed-order predictions used in previous analyses with numerically stable NNLO calculations, and removing the additional numerical uncertainties introduced in earlier fits. We then assess the impact of the 13 TeV measurements, of resummation corrections, and of progressively lowering the minimum cut on the dilepton transverse momentum. We find that resummation improves the description of the Z boson transverse-momentum data and is essential for ensuring the overall consistency of the PDF fits. Nevertheless, it does not conclusively support extending the fitted kinematic region to transverse momenta below a few tens of GeV. The impact of resummation on PDFs is moderate, leading primarily to a stabilisation of the gluon PDF in a kinematic region of relevance for LHC phenomenology. Finally, we comment on the fact that the treatment of correlations among theoretical uncertainties may play a central role in PDF fits to measurements with percent- and sub-percent-level precision.

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