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Drell-Yan Massive Lepton-Pair's Angular Distributions at Large $Q_T$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-03-23 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

By measuring Drell-Yan massive lepton-pair's angular distributions, we can identify the polarization of the virtual photon of invariant mass QQ which decays immediately into the lepton-pair. In terms of a modified QCD factorization formula for Drell-Yan process, which is valid even if QTQQ_T\gg Q, we calculate the massive lepton-pair's angular distributions at large QTQ_T. We find that the virtual photons produced at high QTQ_T are more likely to be transversely polarized. We discuss the implications of this finding to the J/ψ\psi mesons' polarization measured recently at Fermilab.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0102198,
  title  = {Drell-Yan Massive Lepton-Pair's Angular Distributions at Large $Q_T$},
  author = {Jianwei Qiu and Ricardo Rodriguez and Xiaofei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0102198},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Latex, 10 pages including 4 figures