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The forward-backward asymmetry of the Drell-Yan process in dilepton decays at high invariant masses can be used to probe the parton distribution functions at large x. The behavior of three modern PDF sets (CT18NNLO, MSHT20, and NNPDF4.0)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Yao Fu , Raymond Brock , Daniel Hayden , Chien-Peng Yuan

We present a determination of parton distribution functions (ABM11) and the strong coupling constant alpha_s at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD based on world data for deep-inelastic scattering and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Alekhin , J. Blumlein , S. Moch

We present the nuclear transverse momentum broadening for Drell-Yan lepton pair production in p+A collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in powers of strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. We verify that the transverse momentum weighted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu , Xin-Nian Wang , Hongxi Xing

We consider Drell-Yan production and QCD-induced diphoton production and compute their rapidity distributions up to next-to-leading power (NLP) in the threshold variable. We give results for rapidity distributions of the Drell-Yan process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Robin van Bijleveld , Eric Laenen , Leonardo Vernazza , Guoxing Wang

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 calculate the Drell-Yan cross section, resolving the full kinematics of the lepton pair, at high transverse momentum for hadron nucleus collisions. We use the general framework of Luo, Qiu and Sterman to calculate double scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. Fries , A. Schäfer , E. Stein , B. Müller

This paper presents a measurement of the double-differential cross section for the Drell-Yan $Z/\gamma^{*} \rightarrow \ell^{+} \ell^{-}$ and photon-induced $\gamma\gamma \rightarrow \ell^{+} \ell^{-}$ processes where $\ell$ is an electron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-06 ATLAS Collaboration

We study the Drell-Yan process at the Large Hadron Collider in presence of the noncommutative extension of standard model. Using the Seiberg-Witten map, we calculate the production cross-section to the first order in the noncommutative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-15 J Selvaganapathy , Prasanta Kumar Das , Partha Konar

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

We present a preliminary measurement of the electron angular distribution parameter alpha2 in W to e nu events using data collected by the D0 detector during the 1994--1995 Tevatron run. We compare our results with next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 D0 Collaboration , B. Abbott

In this paper, we numerically study the forward correlations between the lepton-pair and associated hadrons in Drell-Yan process in pA collisions. Using the present knowledge of the dipole gluon distribution from the modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-17 Anna Staśto , Bo-Wen Xiao , David Zaslavsky

We present the full next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) coefficient functions for the polarized cross section $d\Delta \sigma/dQ$ for the Drell-Yan process $p + p\to l^+l^- + 'X'$. Here $'X'$ denotes any inclusive hadronic state and $Q$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

According to extensive theoretical studies of the high energy limit of QCD, inelastic interactions are dominated by the multi-Regge final states. The appropriate gauge-invariant objects, which simultaneously incorporate the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-22 M. A. Nefedov , N. N. Nikolaev , V. A. Saleev

In view of recent discussions concerning the possibly limiting energy resolution systematics on the measurement of the Z boson transverse momentum distribution at hadron colliders, we propose a novel measurement method based on the angular…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-12-09 Maarten Boonekamp , Matthias Schott

Measurement at Hadron colliders of neutral- and charged-current Drell-Yan production provide essential constraints in the determination of parton distribution functions. Experimentally, they have reached percent level precision, challenging…

We study the QCD evolution for the twist-three quark-gluon correlation functions associated with the transverse momentum odd quark distributions. Different from that for the leading twist quark distributions, these evolution equations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Jian Zhou , Feng Yuan , Zuo-Tang Liang

We present a detailed numerical study of lepton-pair production via the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak at the LHC. Our results consistently combine next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections and next-to-leading order electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Radja Boughezal , Ye Li , Frank Petriello

We study the effects of dimension-8 operators on Drell-Yan production of lepton pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We identify a class of operators that leads to novel angular dependence not accounted for in current analyses. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Simone Alioli , Radja Boughezal , Emanuele Mereghetti , Frank Petriello

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

We calculate the double-spin transverse asymmetries for the Drell-Yan lepton pair production in p-p and p-anti p collisions. We assume the transverse and the longitudinal polarization densities to be equal at a very small scale, as it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Barone , T. Calarco , A. Drago