Transverse-momentum resummation for vector-boson pair production at NNLL+NNLO

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We consider the transverse-momentum (pₜ) distribution of ZZ and W+W- boson pairs produced in hadron collisions. At small pₜ, the logarithmically enhanced contributions due to multiple soft-gluon emission are resummed to all orders in QCD perturbation theory. At intermediate and large values of pₜ, we consistently combine resummation with the known fixed-order results. We exploit the most advanced perturbative information that is available at present: next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic resummation combined with the next-to-next-to-leading fixed-order calculation. After integration over pₜ, we recover the known next-to-next-to-leading order result for the inclusive cross section. We present numerical results at the LHC, together with an estimate of the corresponding uncertainties. We also study the rapidity dependence of the pₜ spectrum and we consider pₜ efficiencies at different orders of resummed and fixed-order perturbation theory.