NNLO Corrections to the Polarized Drell-Yan Coefficient Function
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present the full next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the coefficient function for the polarized cross section of the Drell-Yan process. We study the effect of these corrections on the process at an C.M. energy . All QCD partonic subprocesses have been included provided the lepton pair is created by a virtual photon, which is a valid approximation for a lepton pair invariant mass . For this reaction the dominant subprocess is given by and its higher order corrections so that it provides us with an excellent tool to measure the polarized sea-quark densities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405233,
title = {NNLO Corrections to the Polarized Drell-Yan Coefficient Function},
author = {V. Ravindran and J. Smith and W. L. van Neerven},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405233},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures, 7th DESY Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory, Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, Zinnowitz, Germany, April 25-30, 2004