Description of fully differential Drell-Yan pair production
Abstract
We investigate Drell-Yan pair production in a QCD inspired model, which takes into account all relevant hard processes up to . To address the known shortfalls of such a fixed order calculation we introduce phenomenological parton distributions for initial transverse momentum and quark mass, and devise a subtraction scheme to avoid double-counting when utilizing the standard longitudinal parton distribution functions. We show that we can reproduce Drell-Yan transverse momentum and invariant mass spectra from different proton-proton, proton-nucleus and antiproton-nucleus experiments and at different energies without the need for a factor. Fixing our parameters at these spectra, we make predictions for Drell-Yan transverse momentum spectra at low hadronic energies, which will be measured for example at ANDA in antiproton-proton collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1108.5287,
title = {Description of fully differential Drell-Yan pair production},
author = {Fabian Eichstaedt and Stefan Leupold and Kai Gallmeister and Hendrik van Hees and Ulrich Mosel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5287},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
34 pages, 37 figures