Glauber gluons in pion-induced Drell-Yan processes
Abstract
We point out that the existence of Glauber gluons in the factorization theorem can account for the violation of the Lam-Tung relation, namely, the anomalous lepton angular distribution, observed in pion-induced Drell-Yan processes. Radiations, that balance the lepton-pair transverse momentum, cause the responsible spin-transverse-momentum correlation in the Glauber-gluon background. It is argued that the Glauber effect is significant in the pion due to its unique role of being a Nambu-Goldstone boson and a bound state simultaneously. This mechanism is compared to other resolutions in the literature by means of vacuum effects and Boer-Mulders functions. We propose to discriminate the above resolutions by measuring the Drell-Yan process at GSI and J-PARC.
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@article{arxiv.1305.4694,
title = {Glauber gluons in pion-induced Drell-Yan processes},
author = {Chun-peng Chang and Hsiang-nan Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4694},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
power counting of Glauber divergences added; more references included