Dilepton rapidity distribution in the Drell-Yan process at NNLO in QCD

Technical Report · Thu Jun 26 04:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/813266· OSTI ID:813266

Dixon, Lance ^[1]

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1. SLAC

We compute the rapidity distribution of the virtual photon produced in the Drell-Yan process through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. We introduce a powerful new method for calculating differential distributions in hard scattering processes. This method is based upon a generalization of the optical theorem; it allows the integration-by-parts technology developed for multi-loop diagrams to be applied to non-inclusive phase-space integrals, and permits a high degree of automation. We apply our results to the analysis of fixed target experiments.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 813266
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-10000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
AUTOMATION
DISTRIBUTION
OPTICAL THEOREM
PARTICLE RAPIDITY
PHASE SPACE
PHOTONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
SCATTERING
TARGETS