Published 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Description of fully differential Drell-Yan pair production

  • 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Giessen (Germany)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University (Sweden)

Description

We investigate the effects of quark distributions of intrinsic transverse momentum and mass on the unpolarised production of Drell-Yan (DY) pairs. The standard leading-order parton model description has shortcomings: a K-factor is necessary to describe invariant mass spectra and no transverse momentum pT is generated in this scheme. In addition e.g. anti PANDA at FAIR will measure at comparatively low hadron centre-of-mass energies of √(s)∼ 5.5 GeV. Therefore non-perturbative effects are expected to play an important role. To address these issues we study a QCD inspired phenomenological parton model which includes leading-order and next-to-leading order production processes. We show that we can describe DY transverse momentum and invariant mass spectra without the need for a K factor. Finally fixing our phenomenological distributions at available data one aim is to make predictions for DY pair production at anti PANDA.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Muenster 2011 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 46(2)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
DPG Spring meeting of the DPG divisions educational physics and hadronic and nuclear physics
Dates
21-25 Mar 2011
Place
Muenster (Germany)

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Notes
Session: HK 42.6 Mi 18:00; No further information available