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It has been proposed that the Siverse transverse single spin asymmetry in Drell-Yan production in transversely polarized p+p collisions would have an opposite sign compared to what has been observed in the polarized Semi-Inclusive Deep…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-20 Ming X. Liu , Xiaodong Jiang , Donald G. Crabb , Jian-ping Chen , Mei Bai

The Drell-Yan process for proton incident on nuclei is an excellent place for deeply studying the parton propagation in a nucleus. By means of the nuclear parton distributions determined only with lepton-nuclear deep inelastic scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-14 Tian-Xing Bai , Chun-Gui Duan

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

The sea quark content of the $\Sigma^+$ baryon is investigated using light-cone baryon-meson fluctuation model suggested by Brodsky and Ma. It is found that the $\Sigma^+$ sea is flavour asymmetric ($\dbar > \ubar > \sbar$) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Fu-Guang Cao , A. I. Signal

We study nuclear dependences of azimuthal asymmetries in the Drell-Yan lepton pair production in nucleon-nucleus collisions with polarized nucleons.We use the "maximal two-gluon correlation approximation", so that we can relate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-27 Long Chen , Jian-hua Gao , Zuo-tang Liang

We study the $\sin2\phi$ azimuthal asymmetry in the $\pi N$ Drell-Yan process, when the nucleon is longitudinally polarized. The asymmetry is contributed by the combination of the Boer-Mulders function and the longitudinal transversity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-08 Zhun Lu , Bo-Qiang Ma , Jun She

This article presents the review of the current understanding on the pion-nucleon Drell-Yan process from the point of view of the TMD factorization. Using the evolution formalism for the unpolarized and polarized TMD distributions developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-08 Xiaoyu Wang , Zhun Lu

We present a measurement of the Drell-Yan cross section at high dielectron invariant mass using 120/pb of data collected in pbar-p collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV by the D0 collaboration during 1992-96. No deviation from standard model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Abbott

We report on measurements of the h_1 structure function, relevant to calculating cross-sections for the Drell-Yan process. This is a quantity which can not be measured in Deep Inelastic Scattering, it gives additional information on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Goeckeler , R. Horsley , E. -M. Ilgenfritz , H. Oelrich , H. Perlt , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , A. Schiller , P. Stephenson

We consider two different spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan processes generated by the collisions of an unpolarized proton beam on transversely polarized protons: the muon helicity asymmetry and the left-right asymmetry. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Elvio Di Salvo

We use the TMD quark densities of the proton to investigate unpolarized Drell-Yan lepton pair production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC energies. We investigate the case where the gluon-to-quark splitting occurs at the last…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 S. P. Baranov , A. V. Lipatov , N. P. Zotov

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 results for Drell-Yan production from the GENEVA Monte-Carlo framework. We combine the fully-differential NNLO calculation with higher-order resummation in the 0-jettiness resolution variable. The resulting parton-level events…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-25 Simone Alioli , Christian W. Bauer , Calvin Berggren , Frank J. Tackmann , Jonathan R. Walsh

We study the Drell-Yan process mediated by a new bosonic resonance at the LHC. The bosons of spin-0, 1, and 2 with the most general leading-order couplings to Standard Model fermions and gluons are considered, which provide a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Neil D. Christensen , Gui-Jun Ding , Tao Han

Recently a series of new measurements with both the neutral and charge current Drell--Yan processes have been performed at hadron colliders, showing deviations from the predictions of the current parton distribution functions (PDFs). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Zihan Zhao , Minghui Liu , Liang Han

We investigate effects of nuclear medium on antiquark distribution in nuclei applying the results of a recently developed relativistically-covariant self-consistent model for the pion and the isobar. We take into account Fermi motion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 C. L. Korpa , A. E. L. Dieperink

We update our previous extraction of transverse momentum distributions of unpolarized quarks in the pion by implementing a more comprehensive description of theoretical uncertainties and, for the first time, by exploring possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Lorenzo Rossi , Alessandro Bacchetta , Matteo Cerutti , Marco Radici

We study the azimuthal asymmetry of the unpolarized Drell-Yan in the framework of the T-odd functions. We find, on the basis of quite general arguments, that for |{\bf q}_{\perp}| << Q such an asymmetry decreases as Q^{-2}, where {\bf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Di Salvo

We propose to measure neutron and deuteron transversity TMDs. The quark transversity distributions of the nucleon are decoupled from the deuteron gluon transversity in the $Q^2$ evolution due to the chiral-odd property in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-05-04 D. Keller

We study the Drell-Yan process in the polarized pion-nucleon scattering. We calculate the $U(1)_\text{em}$ gauge invariant hadron tensors. To this end, we have to take into account two diagrams---the standard diagram and an additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-16 I. V. Anikin , L. Szymanowski , O. V. Teryaev , N. Volchanskiy