Full transverse-momentum spectra of low-mass Drell-Yan pairs at LHC energies

Abstract

The transverse momentum distribution of low-mass Drell-Yan pairs is calculated in QCD perturbation theory with all-order resummation. We argue that at LHC energies the results should be reliable for the entire transverse momentum range. We demonstrate that the transverse momentum distribution of low-mass Drell-Yan pairs is an advantageous source of constraints on the gluon distribution and its nuclear dependence.

16 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (2)

• Tevatron Run-1 Z Boson Data and Collins-Soper-Sterman Resummation Formalism
• Differential Cross Section for Higgs Boson Production Including All-Orders Soft Gluon Resummation

Cited by in corpus (12)

• Parton distributions and lattice QCD calculations: toward 3D structure
• Understanding the large-distance behavior of transverse-momentum-dependent parton densities and the Collins-Soper evolution kernel
• Gluon TMD in particle production from low to moderate x
• An Overview of Transverse Momentum Dependent Factorization and Evolution
• Drell-Yan phenomenology in the color dipole picture revisited
• Non-perturbative effects and the resummed Higgs transverse momentum distribution at the LHC
• Quark Initial State Interaction in Deep Inelastic Scattering and the Drell-Yan process
• Parton transverse momenta and Drell-Yan dilepton production
• Exclusive and diffractive ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ production in $pp$ collisions at the LHC
• Dilepton distributions at backward rapidities
• Phenomenological model for the Drell-Yan process: Reexamined
• Conversion of photons to dileptons in the Kroll-Wada and parton shower approaches