The Drell-Yan Process

Peng, Jen -Chieh; Qiu, Jian -Wei

Title: The Drell-Yan Process

Abstract

The Drell-Yan process, proposed over 45 years ago by Sid Drell and Tung-Mow Yan to describe high-mass lepton-pair production in hadron-hadron collision, has played an important role in validating QCD as the correct theory for strong interaction. This process has also become a powerful tool for probing the partonic structures of hadrons. The Drell-Yan mechanism has led to the discovery of new particles, and will continue to be an important tool to search for new physics. In this study, we review some highlights and future prospects of the Drell-Yan process.

Authors:

Peng, Jen -Chieh ^[1]; Qiu, Jian -Wei ^[2]

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1395828

Report Number(s):: JLAB-THY-16-2409; DOE/OR/23177-4031
Journal ID: ISSN 9999-0040

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-06OR23177

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: The Universe

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 9999-0040

Publisher:: Asian Pacific Organization for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics - APCosPA and Taipei National Taiwan University

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats


                    Peng, Jen -Chieh, and Qiu, Jian -Wei. The Drell-Yan Process.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
Web.

Copy to clipboard


                    Peng, Jen -Chieh, & Qiu, Jian -Wei. The Drell-Yan Process.  United States.

Copy to clipboard


                    Peng, Jen -Chieh, and Qiu, Jian -Wei. Thu .  
"The Drell-Yan Process".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1395828.

Copy to clipboard


                    
@article{osti_1395828,

  title        = {The Drell-Yan Process},

  author       = {Peng, Jen -Chieh and Qiu, Jian -Wei},

  abstractNote = {The Drell-Yan process, proposed over 45 years ago by Sid Drell and Tung-Mow Yan to describe high-mass lepton-pair production in hadron-hadron collision, has played an important role in validating QCD as the correct theory for strong interaction. This process has also become a powerful tool for probing the partonic structures of hadrons. The Drell-Yan mechanism has led to the discovery of new particles, and will continue to be an important tool to search for new physics. In this study, we review some highlights and future prospects of the Drell-Yan process.},

  doi          = {},

  journal      = {The Universe},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 4,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

Copy to clipboard

Journal Article:

Free Publicly Available Full Text

Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Publisher's Version of Record

The DOI is not currently available

Other availability

Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal

Figures / Tables:

Fig. 1: Graphical sketch for the mechanism of massive lepton-pair production in hadron-hadron collisions, proposed by Drell and Yan.

All figures and tables (6 total)

Save / Share:

Export Metadata

Save to My Library

Figures / Tables found in this record:

Figures/Tables have been extracted from DOE-funded journal article accepted manuscripts.

Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections:

Probing Flavor Asymmetry of Anti-quarks in the Proton by Drell-Yan Experiment SeaQuest

Thesis/Dissertation Miyasaka, Shou

A new measurement on the avor asymmetry between d and u in the proton is reported in this thesis. The proton contains a substantial number of antiquarks which arise from dynamical interactions of gluons such as gluon dissociation to a quark-antiquark pair, g ! q + q, and from non-perturbative processes as described by the pion-cloud model, for example. The antiquarks in the proton undertake an important role in determining the dynamic characteristics of the internal structure of the proton, although its distribution in the proton and its origin are not fully understood. Understanding sea quarks in hadron is anmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.2172/1325974

Full Text Available
Recent Measurement of Flavor Asymmetry of Antiquarks in the Proton by Drell–Yan Experiment SeaQuest at Fermilab

Thesis/Dissertation Nagai, Kei

A measurement of the flavor asymmetry of the antiquarks (more »« less
https://doi.org/10.2172/1346822

Full Text Available
Dependence in nuclear Drell-Yan processes including QCD corrections

Journal Article Hwang, W P ; Kisslinger, L S - Phys. Rev. D; (United States)

In treating leading-order QCD corrections to deep-inelastic scattering and the Drell-Yan process, one assumes that collinear singularities arising from the massless nature of the non-Abelian gauge theory be absorbed into parton distributions through redefinition. It has also been suggested that terms which are not perfectly finite near q/sub perpendicular/ = 0 be suitably exponentiated in the impact-parameter space in order to yield proper predictions on q/sub perpendicular/-dependent effects. These steps may lead to negative partial Drell-Yan cross sections for certain QCD diagrams of order ..cap alpha../sub s/. We modify the formalism developed by Altarelli et al. to ensure that allmore »« less
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.38.788
Proceedings of the Drell Yan workshop

Conference

Their reasons may differ but theorists and experimenters agree that massive lepton pairs produced in hadronic collisions are an incisive probe of strong interaction dynamics. Within the past decade experiments revealed two new quark flavors, verified the approximate dimensional scaling predicted by the parton model, and indicated in many other ways that Drell and Yan's quark-antiquark annihilation mechanism is at least qualitatively the right paradigm. Quantum chromodynamics and its phenomenological implications reaffirm the special role of lepton pair production as perhaps the best hadronic laboratory for testing many concepts and computations. The approximately linear growth with energy of the averagemore »« less
Full Text Available
Study of weak corrections to Drell-Yan, top-quark pair, and dijet production at high energies with MCFM

Journal Article Campbell, John M. ; Wackeroth, Doreen ; Zhou, Jia - Physical Review D

Electroweak (EW) corrections can be enhanced at high energies due to the soft or collinear radiation of virtual and real W and Z bosons that result in Sudakov-like corrections of the form αmore »« less
Cited by 21
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.093009

Full Text Available

Similar Records