Mixed QCD-electroweak O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region: pole approximation and non-factorizable corrections

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Drell-Yan-like W-boson and Z-boson production in the resonance region allows for high-precision measurements that are crucial to carry experimental tests of the Standard Model to the extremes, such as the determination of the W-boson mass and the effective weak mixing angle.

• In this article, we establish a framework for the calculation of the mixed QCD-electroweak O(\alpha_s\alpha) corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region, which are one of the main remaining theoretical uncertainties.
• We describe how the Standard Model prediction can be successfully performed in terms of a consistent expansion about the resonance poles, which classifies the corrections in terms of factorizable and non-factorizable contributions.
• The former can be attributed to the W/Z production and decay subprocesses individually, while the latter link production and decay by soft-photon exchange.