Resummation of transverse energy in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders

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We compute the resummed hadronic transverse energy (E_T) distribution due to initial-state QCD radiation in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders.

• The resummed exponent, parton distributions and coefficient functions are treated consistently to next-to-leading order.
• The results are matched to fixed-order calculations at large E_T and compared with parton-shower Monte Carlo predictions at Tevatron and LHC energies.