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Resummation of nuclear enhanced higher twist in the Drell Yan process

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate higher twist contributions to the transverse momentum broadening of Drell Yan pairs in proton nucleus collisions. We revisit the contribution of matrix elements of twist-4 and generalize this to matrix elements of arbitrary twist. An estimate of the maximal nuclear broadening effect is derived. A model for nuclear enhanced matrix elements of arbitrary twist allows us to give the result of a resummation of all twists in closed form. Subleading corrections to the maximal broadening are discussed qualitatively.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209275,
  title  = {Resummation of nuclear enhanced higher twist in the Drell Yan process},
  author = {R. J. Fries},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209275},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor changes in text, acknowledgement added; v3: mistake in fig. 1 corrected