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Moments of the leptonic angular distribution in the Drell-Yan process have recently been shown to be sensitive probes of a specific class of dimension-8, four-fermion operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, involving a pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Xu Li , Ken Mimasu , Kimiko Yamashita , Chengjie Yang , Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

HighPT is a Mathematica package for the analysis of high-energy data of semileptonic transitions at hadron colliders. It allows to compute high-$p_T$ tail observables for semileptonic processes, i.e. Drell-Yan cross sections, for dilepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Lukas Allwicher , Darius. A. Faroughy , Florentin Jaffredo , Olcyr Sumensari , Felix Wilsch

The violation of Lam-Tung relation in the high-$p_T^{\ell\ell}$ region of the Drell-Yan process at the LHC presents a long-standing discrepancy with the standard model prediction at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$ accuracy. In this Letter, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Xu Li , Bin Yan , C. -P. Yuan

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 present an analysis of both the Neutral Current (NC) and Charged Current (CC) Drell-Yan processes at the LHC within a 4 Dimensional realization of a Composite Higgs model studying the cross sections and taking into account the possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-11 D. Barducci , A. Belyaev , S. De Curtis , S. Moretti , G. M. Pruna

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 Drell-Yan di-lepton production at hadron colliders is by far the preferred channel to search for new heavy spin-1 particles. Traditionally, such searches have exploited the Narrow Width Approximation (NWA) for the signal, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Elena Accomando , Daniele Barducci , Stefania De Curtis , Juri Fiaschi , Stefano Moretti , Claire H. Shepherd-Themistocleous

Drell-Yan W/Z electroweak boson production at the LHC is an essential standard candle which is used for calibration of beam luminosity and detector properties. In addition to proton-proton collisions, the LHC has measured heavy nuclei…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-02 D. B. Clark

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 study the potential of fully-differential measurements of high-energy dilepton cross-sections at the LHC to probe heavy new physics encapsulated in dimension-6 interaction operators. The assessment is performed in the seven-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Giuliano Panico , Lorenzo Ricci , Andrea Wulzer

Next-to-leading order electroweak and QCD radiative corrections to the Drell-Yan process with high dimuon masses for experiments CMS LHC at CERN have been studied in fully differential form. The FORTRAN code READY for numerical analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Vladimir Zykunov

Production of a forward Drell-Yan lepton pair accompanied by a jet separated by a large rapidity interval is proposed to study the BFKL evolution at the LHC. Several observables to be measured are presented including the azimuthal angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Krzysztof Golec-Biernat , Leszek Motyka , Tomasz Stebel

We present a comprehensive strategy to isolate the effect of a class of chirality-breaking interactions in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) by exploiting Drell-Yan angular analysis and the violation of the Lam-Tung…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Samuele Grossi , Xu Li , Lorenzo Rolla , Riccardo Torre

We review the production of high-mass lepton pairs in fixed-target experiments, including both Drell-Yan (DY) and heavy quarkonium (J/Psi and Upsilons) production.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-11 P. L. McGaughey , J. M. Moss , J. C. Peng

We show that massive lepton-pair production, the Drell-Yan process, should be a good source of independent constraints on the polarized gluon density, free from the experimental and theoretical complications of photon isolation that beset…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Edmond L. Berger , Lionel E. Gordon , Michael Klasen

We study the phenomenology of Drell-Yan processes at the Large Hadron Collider for the case of both the neutral and charged current channels within a recently proposed 4-Dimensional formulation of the Minimal Composite Higgs Model. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniele Barducci , Alexander Belyaev , Stefania De Curtis , Stefano Moretti , Giovanni Marco Pruna

We investigate the production and signatures of a single, pair of heavy-exotic leptons via the electron-positron induced process and a pair of heavy exotic leptons via the Drell-Yan process at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Cieza Montalvo , P. P. de Queiroz Filho

The breaking of the Lam-Tung relation in the Drell-Yan process at the LHC exhibits a long-standing tension with the Standard Model (SM) prediction at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$ accuracy. This tension could be explained by weak dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Guanghui Li , Xu Li , Bin Yan

This paper presents a first measurement of the cross-section for the charged-current Drell-Yan process $pp\rightarrow W^{\pm} \rightarrow \ell^{\pm} \nu$ above the resonance region, where $\ell$ is an electron or muon. The measurement is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-28 ATLAS Collaboration

The energy loss effect in nuclear matter, which is another nuclear effect apart from the nuclear effect on the parton distribution as in deep inelastic scattering process, can be measured best by the nuclear dependence of the high energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Chun-Gui Duan , Li-Hua Song , Li-Juan Huo , Guang-Lie Li