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The Drell-Yan process is an invaluable tool for probing the structure of hadrons, and the pion-induced Drell-Yan process is unique in its sensitivity to several subtleties of the partonic structure. This is a brief review of the pionic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen-Chen Chang , Dipangkar Dutta

We discuss the sensitivity of theoretical predictions of observables used in searches for new physics to parton distributions (PDFs) at large momentum fraction $x$. Specifically, we consider the neutral-current Drell-Yan production of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Richard D. Ball , Alessandro Candido , Stefano Forte , Felix Hekhorn , Emanuele R. Nocera , Juan Rojo , Christopher Schwan

We present results for the Drell-Yan process $pp \to Z/\gamma^* + X \to l^+l^- + X$ in the presence of the rapidity dependent jet vetoes $\mathcal{T}_{Bj}$ and $\mathcal{T}_{Cj}.$ These observables provide a tighter veto at central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-11 Thomas Clark , Shireen Gangal , Jonathan R. Gaunt

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

The uncertainties in Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are the dominant source of the systematic uncertainty in precision measurements of electroweak parameters at hadron colliders (e.g. $\sin^2\theta_{eff}(M_Z)$,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-11 A. Bodek , J. Han , A. Khukhunaishvili , W. Sakumoto

We present the analytic computation of leading high-energy logarithms of the inclusive Drell-Yan and vector boson production cross-section. We also study the phenomenological relevance of the high-energy corrections for Drell-Yan processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-26 Simone Marzani , Richard D. Ball

At a next-to-leading order calculation, the initial-state energy loss of the quark is investigated by means of the Drell-Yan experimental data including the new E906 measurements. Furthermore, the incoming gluon energy loss effect embedded…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-25 Li-Hua Song , Shang-Fei Xin , Yin-Jie Zhang

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 consider the production of W and Z bosons in hadron collisions. We present a selection of numerical results obtained through a fully exclusive calculation up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. We include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-11 M. Grazzini

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) corrections to the coefficient function for the polarized cross section $d \Delta\sigma/d Q$ of the Drell-Yan process. We study the effect of these corrections on the process $p+p\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

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 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

Partonic cross sections for the production of massive objects in hadronic collisions receive large corrections when the invariant mass of the initial-state partons is just above the production threshold. Since typically the center-of-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-17 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert , Gang Xu

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

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

Understanding the behavior of large atomic nuclei (heavy ions) in high-energy collisions has been the focus of a concerted research effort over the past 10-15 years, with a recent focus on transverse momentum-dependent (or "unintegrated")…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-30 David Zaslavsky

The high-energy tails of charged- and neutral-current Drell-Yan processes provide important constraints on the light quark and anti-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large-x region. At the same time, short-distance new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Admir Greljo , Shayan Iranipour , Zahari Kassabov , Maeve Madigan , James Moore , Juan Rojo , Maria Ubiali , Cameron Voisey

We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, combining $\pi A$ Drell-Yan data with leading neutron electroproduction from HERA within a Monte Carlo approach based on nested sampling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We consider the production of pairs of lepton through the Drell-Yan process at the LHC and present the most accurate prediction on their rapidity distribution. While the fixed order prediction is already known to next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-30 Pulak Banerjee , Goutam Das , Prasanna K. Dhani , V. Ravindran