Lepton Pair Production at the LHC and the Gluon Density in the Proton

Abstract

The hadroproduction of lepton pairs with mass $Q$ and finite transverse momentum $Q_T$ is dominated by quark-gluon scattering in the region $Q_T>Q/2$. This feature provides a new independent method for constraining the gluon density with data at hadron collider energies. Predictions are provided at the energy of the LHC.

3 pages, latex, plus three .ps files. Contribution to be published in the Proceedings of the 1999 CERN Workshop on Standard Model Physics at the LHC, October 14 - 15, 1999