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The Dilepton Q_T Spectrum in Transversely Polarized Drell-Yan Process in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We discuss the transverse momentum Q_T distribution of Drell-Yan pair, produced in collisions of transversely polarized protons. We calculate the transversely polarized Drell-Yan cross section up to order \alpha_s in the dimensional regularization scheme, which gives QCD prediction at large Q_T. For small Q_T region, we include all-orders resummation of large logarithms due to emission of soft gluons up to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. At intermediate Q_T region, the resummation formula is matched with the fixed-order \alpha_s perturbative results in a systematic way, so that we derive the cross section with uniform accuracy over the entire range of Q_T.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512137,
  title  = {The Dilepton Q_T Spectrum in Transversely Polarized Drell-Yan Process in QCD},
  author = {Hiroyuki Kawamura and Jiro Kodaira and Hirotaka Shimizu and Kazuhiro Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512137},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages PTPTeX, 1 figure. Typos corrected and improvements made to the text