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Angular Distributions in the Drell-Yan Process: A Closer Look at Higher Twist Effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

We calculate the angular distribution of the lepton produced in the Drell-Yan reaction taking into account pion bound state effects. We work in the kinematic region where one of the pion constituents goes far off-shell, which allows us to treat the bound state problem perturbatively. We show that the angular distribution is very sensitive to the shape of the pion distribution amplitude. The model we discuss fits the data if we choose a two-humped pion distribution amplitude suggested by QCD sum rules.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403361,
  title  = {Angular Distributions in the Drell-Yan Process: A Closer Look at Higher Twist Effects},
  author = {A. Brandenburg and S. J. Brodsky and V. V. Khoze and D. Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403361},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Plain Tex, 9 pages, 3 appended figures, SLAC-PUB-6464-revised

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