Calculating Dilepton Rates from Monte Carlo Simulations of Parton Production
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
To calculate dilepton rates in a Monte Carlo simulation of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, one usually scales the number of similar QCD processes by a ratio of the corresponding differential probabilities. We derive the formula for such a ratio especially for dilepton bremsstrahlung processes. We also discuss the non-triviality of including higher order corrections to direct Drell-Yan process. The resultant mass spectra from our Monte Carlo simulation are consistent with the semi-analytical calculation using dilepton fragmentation functions.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9310022,
title = {Calculating Dilepton Rates from Monte Carlo Simulations of Parton Production},
author = {K. J. Eskola and Xin-Nian Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9310022},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages in RevTex, 3 figures in uuencoded files, LBL-34664