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Nuclear Enhanced Higher-Twist Effects in the Drell-Yan Process

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the Drell-Yan cross section, resolving the full kinematics of the lepton pair, at high transverse momentum for hadron nucleus collisions. We use the general framework of Luo, Qiu and Sterman to calculate double scattering contributions that are of twist-4 and demonstrate their nuclear enhancement. By comparing single and double scattering at RHIC energies we find that double scattering gives contributions of comparable size. We also show that the angular dependence of the Drell-Yan pair discriminates between the various double scattering contributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0002074,
  title  = {Nuclear Enhanced Higher-Twist Effects in the Drell-Yan Process},
  author = {R. J. Fries and A. Schäfer and E. Stein and B. Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0002074},
  year   = {2008}
}

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30 pages LaTeX, 32 eps-files in 12 figures

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