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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 report a study of the determination of the intrinsic transverse momentum of partons, the intrinsic $k_T$, from the dilepton transverse momentum $p_T$ in Drell-Yan (DY) production at hadron colliders. The result shows that a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenxiao Zhan , Siqi Yang , Minghui Liu , Francesco Hautmann , Liang Han

We compute differential distributions for Drell-Yan processes at the LHC and the Tevatron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD, including fiducial cuts on the decay leptons in the final state. The comparison of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-09 S. Alekhin , S. Amoroso , L. Buonocore , A. Huss , S. Kallweit , A. Kardos , J. Michel , S. Moch , F. Petriello , L. Rottoli , Z. Trócsányi , M. Wiesemann

We calculate the transverse momentum distribution of low-mass Drell-Yan pairs in QCD perturbation theory with all-order resummation. We demonstrate that the transverse momentum distribution of low-mass Drell-Yan pairs is an advantageous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 George Fai , Jianwei Qiu , Xiaofei Zhang

The factorization theorem for $q_T$ spectra in Drell-Yan processes, boson production and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering allows for the determination of the non-perturbative parts of transverse momentum dependent parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Umberto D'Alesio , Miguel G. Echevarría , Stefano Melis , Ignazio Scimemi

We analyze the transverse momentum ($p_{T}$) spectra of lepton pairs ($\ell\bar \ell$) generated in the Drell-Yan process, as detected in proton-nucleus (pion-nucleus) and proton-(anti)proton collisions by ten collaborations over a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Xu-Hong Zhang , Fu-Hu Liu

We present a fit of the transverse momentum spectrum for Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering data, based on transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization at N$^4$LL accuracy. Our analysis shows good agreement with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-06 Valentin Moos , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov , Pia Zurita

The factorization theorems for transverse momentum distributions of dilepton/boson production, recently formulated by Collins and Echevarria-Idilbi-Scimemi in terms of well-defined transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs), allows…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Umberto D'Alesio , Miguel G. Echevarria , Stefano Melis , Ignazio Scimemi

In this work we directly fit the QCD dimensional transmutation parameter, ${\Lambda _{\overline {MS} }}$, to experimental data of Drell-Yan (DY) observables. For this purpose we first obtain the evolution of transverse momentum dependent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 R. Taghavi , A. Mirjalili

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 present a first attempt at a global fit of unpolarized quark transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions from available data on semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan and $Z$ boson production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-12 Cristian Pisano , Alessandro Bacchetta , Filippo Delcarro , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

We study Drell-Yan (DY) dilepton production in proton(deuterium)-nucleus and in nucleus-nucleus collisions within the light-cone color dipole formalism. This approach is especially suitable for predicting nuclear effects in the DY cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Z. Kopeliovich , J. Raufeisen , A. V. Tarasov , M. B. Johnson

We present predictions for the non-singlet Drell-Yan longitudinal spin cross sections and spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, in proton-proton collisions at large $p_T$ at the RHIC energy of $200\gev$ at next-to-leading order QCD. The higher order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sanghyeon Chang , Claudio Coriano , R. D. Field

We discuss the possibility of finding polarized antiquark flavor asymmetry in Drell-Yan processes. We find that the difference between polarized proton-proton and proton-deuteron Drell-Yan cross sections should provide valuable information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 S. Kumano

During the INT-18-3 workshop, we presented an analysis of unpolarized Drell-Yan pair production in pion-nucleus scattering with a particular focus into the pion Transverse Momentum Distributions in view of the future Electron Ion Collider.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-03 A. Courtoy

We present an extraction of unpolarised Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Parton Distribution Functions based on Drell-Yan production data from different experiments, including those at the LHC, and spanning a wide kinematic range. We deal with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Alessandro Bacchetta , Valerio Bertone , Chiara Bissolotti , Giuseppe Bozzi , Filippo Delcarro , Fulvio Piacenza , Marco Radici

The proton's transversity distribution will be measured at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in upcoming experiments using the transverse Drell-Yan process. Understanding the one-loop corrections is therefore important. Here, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Basim Kamal

We compute cross sections for the Drell-Yan process in N--N collisions at next-to-leading order in $\alpha_s$. The mass, rapidity, transverse momentum, and angular dependence of these cross sections are presented. An estimate of higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Gavin , R. Kauffman , S. Gupta , P. V. Ruuskanen , D. K. Srivastava , R. L. Thews

We consider the diffractive Drell-Yan process in proton-(anti)proton collisions at high energies in the color dipole approach. The calculations are performed at forward rapidities of the leptonic pair. Effect of eikonalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 R. S. Pasechnik , B. Z. Kopeliovich

It has recently been suggested that collisions of transversely polarized protons and antiprotons at the GSI could be used to determine the nucleon's transversity densities from measurements of the double-spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hirotaka Shimizu , George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang , Hiroshi Yokoya