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We determine the valence parton distribution function of the pion by performing a new analysis of data for the Drell-Yan process $\pi^- N\to \mu^+\mu^-X$. Compared to previous analyses, we include next-to-leading-logarithmic threshold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Matthias Aicher , Andreas Schäfer , Werner Vogelsang

We show that certain general properties of threshold and joint resummations in Drell-Yan cross sections hold as well for their crossed analogs in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and double-inclusive leptonic annihilation. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang

We provide state-of-the-art precision QCD predictions for the fiducial $W$ and $Z$ boson transverse momentum spectra at the LHC at N$^3$LL$'$ and approximate N$^4$LL in resummed perturbation theory, matched to available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Georgios Billis , Johannes K. L. Michel , Frank J. Tackmann

The production of lepton pairs (Drell-Yan process) at the LHC is being measured to high precision, enabling the extraction of distributions that are triply differential in the di-lepton mass and rapidity as well as in the scattering angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Huss , C. T. Preuss , D. M. Walker

We compute for the first time the complete corrections at N$^3$LO in the strong coupling constant to the inclusive neutral-current Drell-Yan process including contributions from both photon and $Z$-boson exchange. Our main result is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Claude Duhr , Bernhard Mistlberger

We report on the computation of the angle-between-leptons distribution in Drell-Yan processes. More precisely we study the recently introduced variable phi*, which provides us with a more accurate probe of the low Q_T domain of Z boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-04 Simone Marzani , Andrea Banfi , Mrinal Dasgupta , Lee Tomlinson

We present a thorough investigation of the sources of uncertainties to the Drell-Yan production using state-of-the-art predictions for both neutral and charged current channels, focusing on the low invariant mass region. Differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Ekta Chaubey , Claude Duhr , Rhorry Gauld , Pooja Mukherjee

Differential cross sections for the Drell-Yan process, including Z boson production, using the dimuon decay channel are measured in proton-lead (pPb) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV. A data sample recorded…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-06-01 CMS Collaboration

The recent computation on the full threshold contributions to Higgs boson production at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in QCD contains valuable information on the soft gluons resulting from virtual and real emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-12 Taushif Ahmed , Maguni Mahakhud , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

Measurements of neutral current Drell-Yan production at large invariant dilepton masses can be used to test the energy scale dependence (running) of the electroweak mixing angle. In this work, we make use of a novel implementation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Simone Amoroso , Mauro Chiesa , Clara Lavinia Del Pio , Katerina Lipka , Fulvio Piccinini , Federico Vazzoler , Alessandro Vicini

We derive a general expression for the resummation of rapidity distributions for processes with a colorless final state, such as Drell-Yan or Higgs production, in the limit in which the center-of-mass energy goes on threshold, but with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Lorenzo De Ros , Stefano Forte , Giovanni Ridolfi , Davide Maria Tagliabue

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 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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroyuki Kawamura , Jiro Kodaira , Hirotaka Shimizu , Kazuhiro Tanaka

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

We consider neutral- and charged-current Drell Yan lepton-pair production at hadron colliders, and include dominant classes of electroweak and mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to all orders in perturbation theory. The accurate description…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Luca Buonocore , Luca Rottoli , Paolo Torrielli

We review recent results in the investigation of threshold logarithms at next-to-leading power considering the case of the Drell-Yan cross section at NNLO. We first show how they can be reproduced with a method of region calculation. Then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-18 Domenico Bonocore

We discuss the resummation of distributions that are singular at the elastic limit of partonic phase space (partonic threshold) in QCD hard-scattering cross sections, such as heavy quark production. We show how nonleading soft logarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis , George Sterman

We investigate Drell-Yan pair production in a QCD inspired model, which takes into account all relevant hard processes up to $O(\alpha_s)$. To address the known shortfalls of such a fixed order calculation we introduce phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-29 Fabian Eichstaedt , Stefan Leupold , Kai Gallmeister , Hendrik van Hees , Ulrich Mosel

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colourless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. We show that the recent computation of the soft-virtual corrections to Higgs boson production at N$^3$LO [1] together with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Catani , L. Cieri , D. de Florian , G. Ferrera , M. Grazzini

Using the technology of the CAESAR approach to resummation, we examine the jet-veto efficiency in Higgs-boson and Drell-Yan production at hadron colliders and show that at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy the resummation reduces…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Andrea Banfi , Gavin P. Salam , Giulia Zanderighi