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We study the azimuthal asymmetries in proton-proton Drell-Yan processes with one incident proton being transversely or longitudinally polarized. We consider particularly the asymmetries contributed by the leading-twist chiral-odd quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhun Lu , Bo-Qiang Ma , Jiacai Zhu

We discuss general formalism for the structure functions which can be investigated in the polarized Drell-Yan processes with spin-1/2 and spin-1 hadrons. To be specific, the formalism can be applied to the proton-deuteron Drell-Yan…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Hino , S. Kumano

We present a derivation of the threshold resummation formula for the Drell-Yan rapidity distribution. Our argument is valid for all values of rapidity and to all orders in perturbative QCD and can be applied to all Drell-Yan processes in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paolo Bolzoni

We perform a new Monte Carlo QCD analysis of pion parton distribution functions, including, for the first time, transverse momentum dependent pion-nucleus Drell-Yan cross sections together with $p_{\rm T}$-integrated Drell-Yan and leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 N. Y. Cao , P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk

In this article, we discuss about the Drell-Yan process focusing on the computation of radiative corrections for vector boson production. First, we describe the $q_T$-resummation formalism and its application to obtain higher-order QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 German F. R. Sborlini

We study angular distributions in the Drell-Yan process using an extended transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization framework that includes kinematic power corrections. This approach allows the description of observables previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-19 Alexey Vladimirov

Using Drell-Yan pair production as an example, we explore the relation between two well-known mechanisms for single transverse-spin asymmetries in hard processes: twist-three quark-gluon correlations when the pair's transverse momentum is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Wei Qiu , Werner Vogelsang , Feng Yuan

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

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

The asymmetry in the angular distribution of Drell--Yan dilepton pairs generated in collisions where just one nucleon is transversely polarised has been examined in the literature with a variety of results, mainly differing by factors of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-24 Gabriele Re Calegari , Philip G. Ratcliffe

We study the transverse momentum dependent factorization for single spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering processes at one-loop order. The next-to-leading order hard factors are calculated in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Zhong-Bo Kang , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

We discuss recent theoretical results for the complete mixed QCD-EW corrections to lepton-pair production via the Drell-Yan mechanism, a cornerstone process for the precision physics programme at the LHC. We present results for fiducial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Luca Buonocore

We examine the quark-induced Drell-Yan process at next-to-leading power (NLP) in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. Using an approach with no explicit soft or collinear modes, we discuss the factorization of the differential cross section in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-22 Matthew Inglis-Whalen , Michael Luke , Jyotirmoy Roy , Aris Spourdalakis

The Drell-Yan process provides important information on the internal structure of hadrons including transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs). In this work we present calculations for all leading twist structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 S. Bastami , L. Gamberg , B. Parsamyan , B. Pasquini , A. Prokudin , P. Schweitzer

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

We review ideas on the structure of the QCD vacuum which had served as motivation for the discussion of various non-standard QCD effects in high-energy reactions in articles from 1984 to 1995. These effects include, in particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Otto Nachtmann

The lepton helicity distributions in the polarized Drell-Yan process at RHIC energy are investigated. For the events with relatively low invariant mass of lepton pair in which the weak interaction is negligible, only the measurement of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiro Kodaira , Hiroshi Yokoya

The unitarity corrections effects encoded in the Glauber-Mueller approach are taken into account to calculate the differential cross sections in the Drell-Yan process in the rest frame. A detailed study of the Drell-Yan process in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Betemps , M. B. Gay Ducati , M. V. T. Machado

We study the $\cos2\phi$ azimuthal asymmetry in doubly longitudinally polarized proton-proton Drell-Yan collisions within the transverse momentum dependent factorization framework. The asymmetry arises from the convolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Hui Li , Ting Hu , Liang-Liang Liu , Xiao-Yu Wang , Zhun Lu

We study factorization schemes for parton shower models in hadron-hadron collisions. As an example, we calculate lepton pair production mediated by a virtual photon in quark--anti-quark annihilation, and we compare factorized cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hidekazu Tanaka , Yu Matsuda , Hirokazu Kobayashi