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We calculate QCD corrections to transversely polarized Drell-Yan process at a measured $Q_T$ of the produced lepton pair in the dimensional regularization scheme. The $Q_T$ distribution is discussed resumming soft gluon effects relevant for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Kawamura , J. Kodaira , H. Shimizu , K. Tanaka

The longitudinal-transverse spin asymmetry $A_{LT}$ in the polarized Drell-Yan process depends on twist-3 quark distributions of nucleon. In addition to the contributions associated with the twist-3 operators, these distributions contain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-24 Yuji Koike , Kazuhiro Tanaka , Shinsuke Yoshida

In this paper, we extend the study of Drell-Yan processes with antiproton beams already presented in a previous work. We consider the fully polarized $\bar{p}^\uparrow p^\uparrow \to \mu^+ \mu^- X$ process, because this is the simplest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Bianconi , Marco Radici

The lepton angular distributions of the Drell-Yan process in the fixed-target experiments are investigated by NLO and NNLO perturbative QCD. We present the calculated angular parameters $\lambda$, $\mu$, $\nu$ and the degree of violation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-01 Wen-Chen Chang , Randall Evan McClellan , Jen-Chieh Peng , Oleg Teryaev

We study the Drell-Yan cross section differential with respect to the transverse momentum of the produced lepton pair. We consider data with moderate invariant mass Q of the lepton pair, between 4.5 GeV and 13.5 GeV, and similar (although…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-31 Alessandro Bacchetta , Giuseppe Bozzi , Martin Lambertsen , Fulvio Piacenza , Julius Steiglechner , Werner Vogelsang

We present QCD prediction of double-spin asymmetries ($A_{TT}$) in transversely polarized Drell-Yan process at small transverse momentum $Q_T$ of dimuon. Resummation of large logarithmic corrections, relevant in small $Q_T$ region, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroyuki Kawamura , Jiro Kodaira , Kazuhiro Tanaka

A short summary of results of recent simulations of (un)polarized Drell-Yan experiments is presented here. Dilepton production in $pp$, $\bar{p}p$, $\pi^-p$ and $\pi^+p$ scattering is considered, for several kinematics corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Andrea Bianconi

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 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

The Drell-Yan mechanism for the production of lepton pairs is one of the most basic processes for physics studies at hadron colliders. It is therefore important to have accurate theoretical predictions. In this work we compute the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 William B. Kilgore , Christian Sturm

We study the renormalization of the Wilson loop with a path corresponding to the Drell-Yan lepton pair production in two-loop approximation of perturbation theory. We establish the renormalization group equation in next-to-leading order and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Belitsky

Recently, it has been shown, contrary to previous beliefs, that the k_T distribution of quarks in a transversely polarized proton can be asymmetric. This ``Sivers effect'' had already been used to explain transverse single spin asymmetries…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Anselmino , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia

A quantitative estimate is presented for the double transverse spin asymmetries at measured q_T in both the Drell-Yan process and W-boson production due to Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) effects. These spin asymmetries are calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Wilco J. den Dunnen , Daniel Boer , Aram Kotzinian

We calculate the double transverse-spin asymmetries, $\aqt$, in transversely polarized Drell-Yan process at the transverse-momentum $Q_T$ of the produced lepton pair. We perform all-order resummation of the logarithmically enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroyuki Kawamura , Jiro Kodaira , Kazuhiro Tanaka

This paper presents a measurement of the triple-differential cross section for the Drell--Yan process $Z/\gamma^*\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ where $\ell$ is an electron or a muon. The measurement is performed for invariant masses of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-12 ATLAS Collaboration

We propose to perform measurements of asymmetries of the Drell-Yan (DY) pairs production in collisions of non-polarized, longitudinally and transversally polarized protons and deuterons which provide an access to all leading twist collinear…

We calculate the gauge invariant Drell-Yan-like hadron tensors. In connection with new COMPASS results, we propose the single spin asymmetry which probes gluon poles together with chiral-odd and time-odd functions. The relevant pion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-05 I. V. Anikin , L. Szymanowski , O. V. Teryaev , N. Volchanskiy

Longitudinally polarized, unpolarized and forward-backward mass differential cross sections for Drell-Yan lepton-pair production by arbitrary vector bosons are calculated in next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD. Analytical results are presented…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Kamal

Two twist-3 processes are discussed. We first present a simple estimate of the longitudinal-transverse spin asymmetry in the polarized Drell-Yan process. We next derive a cross section for the semi-inclusive production of a polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuji Koike

We investigate the role of the transverse spin dependence in Drell Yan lepton pair production to NLO in QCD at parton level. In our analysis we deal with the large $p_T$ distributions. We give very compact expressions for the virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanghyeon Chang , Claudio Coriano , John K. Elwood