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We make theoretical predictions for the recently introduced variable \phi* corresponding to the azimuthal angle between leptons produced in the Drell-Yan process at the LHC. As a consequence of this work we are also able to generate results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-24 Andrea Banfi , Mrinal Dasgupta , Simone Marzani , Lee Tomlinson

In collider physics, parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a crucial role in computing theoretical cross sections for scattering reactions. This study explores how different experimental data sets influence extracted PDFs in CTEQ-TEA…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Lucas Kotz

We study the cross section \sigma and Forward-Backward asymmetry A_{FB} in the process pp \to \gamma^*,Z \to \ell^+\ell^- (with \ell=e,\mu) for determinations of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton. We show that, once mapped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-19 E. Accomando , J. Fiaschi , F. Hautmann , S. Moretti

Neutral current Drell-Yan (DY) lepton-pair production is considered in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). Using the open-source fit platform xFitter, we investigate the impact of high-statistics measurements…

We present a global fit of parton distributions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. The fit is based on the world data for deep-inelastic scattering, fixed-target data for the Drell-Yan process and includes, for the first time,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 S. Alekhin , J. Bluemlein , S. Moch

The formalism for uniform description of Drell-Yan transverse-momentum spectrum is presented in a framework of High-Energy Factorization, which smoothly interpolates between Collins-Soper-Sterman formalism at $|{\bf q}_T|\ll Q$ and usual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Maxim A. Nefedov , Vladimir A. Saleev

We study the impact of LHC forward-backward asymmetry (AFB) measurements at high invariant-mass in the Drell-Yan process on probes of semileptonic four-fermion operators in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-19 Radja Boughezal , Yingsheng Huang , Frank Petriello

In this work, the P-P(\={P}) Drell-Yan lepton pair production (DY) differential cross sections at hadrons colliders, such as LHC and TEVATRON, are studied in the ${k_{t}}$-factorization framework. In order to take into account the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-13 M. Modarres , R. Taghavi , R. Aminzadeh Nik , R. Kord Valeshabadi

We present an extraction of unpolarized quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs) from Drell-Yan data within a Bayesian inference framework, incorporating artificial intelligence at multiple stages of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Zhong-Bo Kang , Luke Sellers , Congyue Zhang , Curtis Zhou

Uncertainties in the parametrization of Parton Distribution Functions are a serious limiting systematic uncertainty in Large Hadron Collider searches for Beyond the Standard Model physics. This is especially true for measurements at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Yao Fu , Raymond Brock , Daniel Hayden , Chien-Peng Yuan

First, we show how to reduce the sensitivity of the NLO predictions of the Drell-Yan production of low-mass, lepton-pairs, at high rapidity, to the choice of factorization scale. In this way, observations of this process at the LHC can make…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 A. D. Martin , E. G. de Oliveira , M. G. Ryskin

We present a study of the LHC (and HL-LHC) potential towards a precise determination of the gluon parton distribution function of the proton at intermediate Bjorken-$x$ from measurements of Drell-Yan production. To this extent, we exploit a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-23 Simone Amoroso

Motivated by the recent work of Brzemi\'nski, Motyka, Sadzikowski and Stebel in arXiv:1611.04449, where forward Drell--Yan production is studied in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, we improve their calculation by introducing an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 F. G. Celiberto , D. Gordo Gómez , A. Sabio Vera

This paper describes precision measurements of the transverse momentum $p_\mathrm{T}^{\ell\ell}$ ($\ell=e,\mu$) and of the angular variable $\phi^{*}_{\eta}$ distributions of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in a mass range of 66-116 GeV. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-16 ATLAS Collaboration

We present new parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, derived from a comprehensive global QCD analysis of high-precision data sets from combined HERA…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-17 Majid Azizi , Maryam Soleymaninia , Hadi Hashamipour , Maral Salajegheh , Hamzeh Khanpour , Ulf-G. Meißner

We examine the dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) on the value of the QCD coupling strength $\alpha_{s}(M_{Z})$. We explain a simple method that is rigorously valid in the quadratic approximation normally applied in PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Hung-Liang Lai , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

In this paper we explore the use of results on forward particle production at the LHC to constrain nuclear Parton Density Functions (nPDFs). The case study here is based on a possible future measurement of forward photon production with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 Marco van Leeuwen

We describe the inclusion of the photon as an additional component of the proton's Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) in the MMHT framework. The input for the photon is adopted from the recent LUXqed determination. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-23 Ricky Nathvani , Lucian Harland-Lang , Robert Thorne , Alan Martin

The predictions of Drell-Yan production of low-mass, lepton-pairs, at high rapidity at the LHC, are known to depend sensitively on the choice of factorization and renormalization scales. We show how this sensitivity can be greatly reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 E. G. de Oliveira , A. D. Martin , M. G. Ryskin

This paper presents a measurement of the triple-differential cross section for the Drell--Yan process $Z/\gamma^*\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ where $\ell$ is an electron or a muon. The measurement is performed for invariant masses of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-12 ATLAS Collaboration