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Medium modification of parton fragmentation functions induced by multiple scattering and gluon bremsstrahlung is shown to describe the recent HERMES data in deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) very well, providing the first evidence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We present a space-time description of hadronization of highly virtual quarks originating from a deep-inelastic electron scattering (DIS). Important ingredients of our approach are the time- and energy--dependence of the density of energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Z. Kopeliovich , J. Nemchik , E. Predazzi

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 examine the current status of the extraction of the rate of partonic energy loss in nuclei from A dependent data. The advantages and difficulties of using the Drell-Yan process to measure the energy loss of a parton traversing a cold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. T. Garvey , J. C. Peng

The Drell-Yan process is a standard tool for probing the partonic structure of hadrons. Since the process proceeds through a quark-antiquark annihilation, Drell-Yan scattering possesses a unique ability to selectively probe sea…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul E. Reimer

In this article, we investigate parton energy loss in cold nuclear matter by studying the ratio of Drell-Yan production cross sections in fixed-target proton-nucleus (p + A) collisions. We analyze Drell-Yan production cross-section data…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Sourav Kanti Giri , Partha Pratim Bhaduri , Biswarup Paul , Santosh K. Das

Hadron production in lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering is studied in an absorption model. In the proposed model, the early stage of hadronization in the nuclear medium is dominated by prehadron formation and absorption, controlled by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Accardi , D. Grunewald , V. Muccifora , H. J. Pirner

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

We determine the strong coupling from high-energy data for the Drell-Yan (DY) process and top-quark hadro-production collected at the Large Hadron Collider and the Tevatron combined with the world data on deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-27 S. Alekhin , M. V. Garzelli , S. Moch , O. Zenaiev

We study the nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process using quark parton distribution functions calculated in a microscopic nuclear model which takes into account the effects of Fermi motion, nuclear binding and nucleon correlations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 H. Haider , M. Sajjad Athar , S. K. Singh , I. Ruiz Simo

A precise measurement of the ratios of the Drell-Yan cross section per nucleon for an 800 GeV/c proton beam incident on Be, Fe and W targets is reported. The behavior of the Drell-Yan ratios at small target parton momentum fraction is well…

Exclusive differential spectra in color-singlet processes at hadron colliders are benchmark observables that have been studied to high precision in theory and experiment. We present an effective-theory framework utilizing soft-collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-03 Piotr Pietrulewicz , Daniel Samitz , Anne Spiering , Frank J. Tackmann

We calculate the multiple scattering effect on single hadron production in semi-inclusive lepton-nucleus deeply inelastic scattering. We show that the quantum interference of multiple scattering amplitudes leads to suppression in hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-06-13 Xiaofeng Guo , Jun Li

This review examines data from hadron-nucleus collisions, primarily focusing on hard processes like Drell-Yan, heavy flavor and quarkonium production. It highlights observed modifications of particle yields as functions of momentum and…

The influence of the nuclear medium on the production of charged hadrons in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering has been studied by the HERMES experiment at DESY using 27.5 GeV positrons. A substantial reduction of the multiplicity of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Valeria Muccifora

We discuss bounds on the distribution and fragmentation functions that appear at leading order in deep inelastic 1-particle inclusive leptoproduction or in Drell-Yan processes. These bounds simply follow from positivity of the quark-hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bacchetta , M. Boglione , A. Henneman , P. J. Mulders

Despite the success of modern nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in describing nuclear hard-process data, they still suffer from large uncertainties. One of the poorly constrained features is the possible asymmetry in nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Petja Paakkinen , Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen

We perform a next to leading order QCD global analysis of nuclear deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data using the convolution approach to parameterize nuclear parton densities. We find both a significant improvement in the agreement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. de Florian , R. Sassot

We perform a combined analysis of inclusive electron scattering data from $A=3$ nuclei in the deep-inelastic and quasielastic scattering regions, using Monte Carlo analysis methods and the nuclear weak binding approximation to establish the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 A. J. Tropiano , J. J. Ethier , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato

The influence of the nuclear medium on the production of charged hadrons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering has been studied by the HERMES experiment at DESY using a 27.5 GeV positron beam. The differential multiplicity of charged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-07 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian