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We investigate the Drell-Yan transverse momentum distribution in the framework of the color dipole approach. Special attention is paid to parton saturation effects at high energies. Predictions at LHC energies ($\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV) are given…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Betemps , M. B. Gay Ducati , M. V. T. Machado , J. Raufeisen

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 calculate the differential Drell-Yan production cross section in proton-nucleus collisions by including both next-to-leading order perturbative effects and effects of the nuclear medium. We demonstrate that dilepton production in fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 R. B. Neufeld , I. Vitev , B. W. Zhang

We present the nuclear transverse momentum broadening for Drell-Yan lepton pair production in p+A collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in powers of strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. We verify that the transverse momentum weighted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu , Xin-Nian Wang , Hongxi Xing

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 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

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

As part of the DESY summer student program 2021, transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions obtained from the Parton Branching (PB) method were combined with next-to-leading-order (NLO) using the POWHEG method. Computations of…

The roles of the Drell-Yan experiments in studying the Transverse-Momentum-Dependent (TMD) parton distributions are discussed. Recent results from the Fermilab E866 experiment on the angular distributions of Drell-Yan dimuons in $p+p$ and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Jen-Chieh Peng

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

Within the framework of a high-twist approach, we show the first complete next-to-leading order calculation of transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic $e+A$ scattering and Drell-Yan dilepton production in $p+A$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-09 Hongxi Xing , Zhong-Bo Kang , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

The description of the Drell-Yan (DY) transverse momentum spectrum requires matching of fixed order QCD calculations with soft gluon resummation up to all orders in the QCD coupling. It has been noticed in the literature that a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-21 Aleksandra Lelek

Transverse momentum broadening of fast partons propagating through a large nucleus is proportional to the average color field strength in the nucleus. In this work, the corresponding coefficient is determined in three different frameworks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Raufeisen

In this work, coherence effects in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and in the Drell-Yan (DY) process off nuclei are investigated, in particular nuclear shadowing. The target rest frame and the color dipole formulation are employed. Multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Raufeisen

Single diffractive Drell-Yan reaction in hadron-hadron collisions is considered as an important source of information on the properties of soft QCD interactions. In particular, it provides an access to the dynamics of the QCD factorisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Roman Pasechnik , Boris Kopeliovich

In the resummation of collinear gluons emitted together with active partons from the hadrons in the Drell-Yan process (DY) effects of color entanglement become important when the transverse directions are taken into account. It is then no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-12 M. G. A. Buffing , P. J. Mulders

We calculate nuclear effect in Drell-Yan massive lepton-pair production in terms of parton multiple scattering in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We present the nuclear modification to inclusive Drell-Yan cross section $d\sigma/dQ^2$ in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jianwei Qiu , Xiaofei Zhang

Forward Drell-Yan production at high energy can provide important constraints on gluon densities at small $x$, in the saturation regime. In this work we focus on the nuclear modification of this process, which could be measured at the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 B. Ducloué

The Drell-Yan process is studied in the framework of TMD factorization in the Sudakov region $s\gg Q^2\gg q_\perp^2$ corresponding to recent LHC experiments with $Q^2$ of order of mass of Z-boson and transverse momentum of DY pair $\sim$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-27 Ian Balitsky

We study the spin-dependent quark distributions at large transverse momentum. We derive their transverse momentum behaviors in the collinear factorization approach in this region. We further calculate the angular distribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Jian Zhou , Feng Yuan , Zuo-Tang Liang