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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

In this review, we describe the status of transverse momentum dependence (TMD) in double parton scattering (DPS). The different regions of TMD DPS are discussed, and expressions given for the DPS cross section contributions that make use of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-18 Jonathan R. Gaunt , Tomas Kasemets

The forward-backward asymmetry of the Drell-Yan process in dilepton decays at high invariant masses can be used to probe the parton distribution functions at large x. The behavior of three modern PDF sets (CT18NNLO, MSHT20, and NNPDF4.0)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Yao Fu , Raymond Brock , Daniel Hayden , Chien-Peng Yuan

We study the nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process using quark parton distribution functions calculated in a microscopic nuclear model which takes into account the effects of Fermi motion, nuclear binding and nucleon correlations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 H. Haider , M. Sajjad Athar , S. K. Singh , I. Ruiz Simo

The forward Drell--Yan process in $pp$ scattering at the LHC at $\sqrt{S}=14$ TeV is considered. We analyze the Drell--Yan structure functions assuming the dominance of a Compton-like emission of a virtual photon from a fast quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-03 Dawid Brzeminski , Leszek Motyka , Mariusz Sadzikowski , Tomasz Stebel

We report an analysis of the nuclear dependence of the yield of Drell-Yan (DY) dimuons from the 800 GeV/c proton bombardment of $^2H$, C, Ca, Fe, and W targets. A light-cone formulation of the DY process is employed in the rest frame of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Moss , G. T. Garvey , M. B. Johnson , M. J. Leitch , P. L. McGaughey , J. -C. Peng B. Z. Kopeliovich , I. K. Potashnikova

We present a comprehensive study of the angular structure functions for Drell-Yan leptons in $Z/\gamma$-boson production within the framework of the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorem, including kinematic power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Sara Piloneta , Alexey Vladimirov

The Drell-Yan process is a standard tool for probing the partonic structure of hadrons. Since the process proceeds through a quark-antiquark annihilation, Drell-Yan scattering possesses a unique ability to selectively probe sea…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul E. Reimer

In this contribution I discuss transverse momentum dependent quark distributions and their operator structure. Some of the experimental signatures, in particular in Drell-Yan scattering, are given.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Mulders

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 unpolarized, helicity and transversity distributions of quarks in the proton are calculated in the overlap representation of light-cone wavefunctions truncated to the lowest order Fock-space components with three valence quarks. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Pasquini , M. Pincetti , S. Boffi

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 tensor-polarized structures of the deuteron can be probed through the proton-deuteron Drell-Yan process, where the proton is unpolarized and the deuteron is tensor polarized. This measurement will be conducted at Fermilab in the near…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Si-Yi Qiao , Qin-Tao Song

By globally analyzing nuclear Drell-Yan data including all incident energies, the nuclear effects of nPDFs and initial-state parton energy loss are investigated. Based on Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) regime, the calculations are carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Li-Hua Song , Peng-Qi Wang , Yin-Jie Zhang

We study the azimuthal asymmetry in the Drell-Yan lepton pair production in hadronic scattering processes at moderate transverse momentum region, taking into account the contributions from the twist-three quark-gluon correlations from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-24 Jian Zhou , Feng Yuan , Zuo-tang Liang

We study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions in the newly proposed quasi-parton distribution function framework in Euclidean space. A soft factor subtraction is found to be essential to make the TMDs calculable on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Xiangdong Ji , Peng Sun , Xiaonu Xiong , Feng Yuan

We calculate the A-dependence of open charm and beauty as well as Drell-Yan pair production cross sections on nuclear targets taking into account the difference of quark and gluon distributions in free and bound nucleons. The results are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 N. Armesto , C. Pajares , C. A. Salgado , Yu. M. Shabelski

In this work, the P-P(\={P}) Drell-Yan lepton pair production (DY) differential cross sections at hadrons colliders, such as LHC and TEVATRON, are studied in the ${k_{t}}$-factorization framework. In order to take into account the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-13 M. Modarres , R. Taghavi , R. Aminzadeh Nik , R. Kord Valeshabadi

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 compute the contribution of twist-2 and twist-3 parton distribution functions to the small-$b$ expansion for transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions at all powers of $b$. The computation is done by the twist-decomposition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-06 Valentin Moos , Alexey Vladimirov