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Nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process

Nuclear Theory 2017-04-05 v1

Abstract

We study the nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process using quark parton distribution functions calculated in a microscopic nuclear model which takes into account the effects of Fermi motion, nuclear binding and nucleon correlations through a relativistic nucleon spectral function. The contributions of π\pi and ρ\rho mesons as well as shadowing effects are also included. The beam energy loss is calculated using a phenomenological approach. The present theoretical results are compared with the experimental results of E772 and E886 experiments. These results are applicable to the forthcoming experimental analysis of E906 Sea Quest experiment at Fermi Lab.

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@article{arxiv.1606.04645,
  title  = {Nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process},
  author = {H. Haider and M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh and I. Ruiz Simo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04645},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17 pages, 12 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1306.3829

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