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The transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorem accommodates various types of power corrections. Among them, the least studied are qT/Q corrections, which become significant at large values of transverse momentum. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-01 Arturo Arroyo-Castro , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

The Drell-Yan process is studied in the framework of TMD factorization in the Sudakov region $s\gg Q^2\gg q_\perp^2$ corresponding to recent LHC experiments with $Q^2$ of order of mass of Z-boson and transverse momentum of DY pair $\sim$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-27 Ian Balitsky

We discuss the Drell-Yan dilepton production using the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions evolved with the Catani-Ciafaloni-Fiorani-Marchesini-Kwieci\'nski (CCFM-K) equations in the single loop approximation. Such equations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Krzysztof Golec-Biernat , Tomasz Stebel

The factorization theorem for $q_T$ spectra in Drell-Yan processes, boson production and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering allows for the determination of the non-perturbative parts of transverse momentum dependent parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Umberto D'Alesio , Miguel G. Echevarría , Stefano Melis , Ignazio Scimemi

We use multi-parton states to examine the leading order collinear factorization of single transverse-spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan processes. Twist-3 operators are involved in the factorization. We find that the so-called soft-gluon-pole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 J. P. Ma , H. Z. Sang

We consider the azimuthal distribution of the final observed hadron in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and the lepton pair in the Drell-Yan process. In particular, we focus on the $\cos \phi$ modulation of the unpolarized cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Alessandro Bacchetta , Giuseppe Bozzi , Miguel G. Echevarria , Cristian Pisano , Alexey Prokudin , Marco Radici

We study the Drell-Yan cross section differential with respect to the transverse momentum of the produced lepton pair. We consider data with moderate invariant mass Q of the lepton pair, between 4.5 GeV and 13.5 GeV, and similar (although…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-31 Alessandro Bacchetta , Giuseppe Bozzi , Martin Lambertsen , Fulvio Piacenza , Julius Steiglechner , Werner Vogelsang

We consider the color gauge invariance of a factorized description of the Drell-Yan process cross section. In particular, we focus on the next-to-leading twist contributions for polarized scattering and on the cross section differential in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Boer , P. J. Mulders

We consider the diffractive Drell-Yan process in proton-(anti)proton collisions at high energies in the color dipole approach. The calculations are performed at forward rapidities of the leptonic pair. Effect of eikonalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 R. S. Pasechnik , B. Z. Kopeliovich

We examine the quark-induced Drell-Yan process at next-to-leading power (NLP) in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. Using an approach with no explicit soft or collinear modes, we discuss the factorization of the differential cross section in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-22 Matthew Inglis-Whalen , Michael Luke , Jyotirmoy Roy , Aris Spourdalakis

We derive a factorization theorem for Drell-Yan process at low q_T using effective field theory methods. In this theorem all the obtained quantities are gauge invariant and the special role of the soft function--and its subtraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

It has been observed in the literature that measurements of low-mass Drell-Yan (DY) transverse momentum spectra at low center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ are not well described by perturbative QCD calculations in collinear factorization in…

We consider the transverse-momentum (q_T) distribution of Drell--Yan lepton pairs produced in hadron collisions. At small values of q_T, we resum the logarithmically-enhanced perturbative QCD contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-24 G. Bozzi , S. Catani , G. Ferrera , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini

In this paper we study the transverse energy spectrum for the Drell-Yan process. The transverse energy is measured within the central region defined by a (pseudo-) rapidity cutoff. Soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) is used to factorize…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-25 Daekyoung Kang , Yiannis Makris , Thomas Mehen

We present a decomposition of the hadronic tensor for a general polarized Drell-Yan process AB --> l^+ l^- X in terms of helicity structure functions using the helicity axes of the dilepton rest frame as a basis. Next, we consider a QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 M. Boglione , S. Melis

We study the transverse momentum dependent factorization for single spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering processes at one-loop order. The next-to-leading order hard factors are calculated in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Zhong-Bo Kang , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

It has recently been suggested that collisions of transversely polarized protons and antiprotons at the GSI could be used to determine the nucleon's transversity densities from measurements of the double-spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hirotaka Shimizu , George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang , Hiroshi Yokoya

In this paper we study the cross section at leading order in $1/Q$ for polarized Drell-Yan scattering at measured lepton-pair transverse momentum $Q_T$. We find that for a hadron with spin $1/2$ the quark content at leading order is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 R. D. Tangerman , P. J. Mulders

We consider the transverse-momentum ($q_T$) distribution of Drell-Yan lepton pairs produced with invariant masses ($M$) from low values up to the $Z$-boson peak ($4\leq M \leq 116$~GeV). We present perturbative predictions obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Stefano Camarda , Giancarlo Ferrera , Lorenzo Rossi

We present a fit of the transverse momentum spectrum for Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering data, based on transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization at N$^4$LL accuracy. Our analysis shows good agreement with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-06 Valentin Moos , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov , Pia Zurita