Energy loss effect in high energy nuclear Drell-Yan process

The energy loss effect in nuclear matter, which is a nuclear effect apart from the nuclear effect on the parton distribution as in deep-inelastic scattering process, can be measured best by the nuclear dependence of the high energy nuclear Drell-Yan process. By means of the nuclear parton distribution studied only with lepton deep-inelastic scattering experimental data, the measured Drell-Yan production cross sections for 800 GeV proton incident on a variety of nuclear targets are analyzed within the Glauber framework which takes into account the energy loss of the beam proton. It is shown that the theoretical results with considering the energy loss effect are in good agreement with the FNAL E866 data.Arrival of the final proofs: 24 June 2003     

Correlations between transverse energy production and the Drell-Yan process in heavy ion collisions at high energy

The expression for the Drell-Yan cross section is presented which takes into account the geometry of heavy ion collisions. The Drell-Yan cross section is shown to be proportional to the transverse energy produced within a fixed rapidity interval. A dependence steeper than linear of the cross section for production of dileptons with masses larger than about 2 GeV on the transverse energy in a given rapidity bin would be a clear-cut signal for the formation of the quark-gluon plasma.     

Drell-Yan nuclear modification due to nuclear effects of nPDFs and initial-state parton energy loss

By globally analyzing nuclear Drell-Yan data including all incident energies,the nuclear effects of nuclear parton distribution functions(nPDFs)and initial-state parton energy loss are investigated.Based on the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal(LPM)regime,the calculations are carried out by means of analytic parametrizations of quenching weights derived from the Baier-Dokshitzer-Mueller-Peigné-Schiff(BDMPS)formalism and using the new EPPS16 nPDFs.It is found that the results are in good agreement with the data and the role of the energy loss effect in the suppression of Drell-Yan ratios is prominent,especially for low-mass Drell-Yan measurements.Thenuclear effects of nPDFs become more obvious with increasing nuclear mass number A,the same as the energy loss effect.By a global fit,the transport coefficient extracted is q=0.26±0.04 GeV²/fm.In addition,to avoid diminishing the QCD NLO correction to the data form of Drell-Yan ratios,separate calculations of the Compton differentialcross section ratios RFe(W)/C(xF)at 120 GeV are performed,which provides a feasible way to better distinguish the gluon energy loss in Compton scattering.It is found that the role of the initial-state gluon energy loss in the suppression of Compton scattering ratios is not very important and disappears with the increase of xF.     

Colour effects in Drell-Yan process

We examine the predictions of gauge theories with colour excitation for the processpp →μ ⁺ μ ⁻ X. Relative to the predictions of quark parton model (with three colours) we find enhancements as large as a factor 3 – 4 for the cross-sectionM ³ d ² σ/dMdy|_y=0 in the region 0·03 ≲M/√s ≲ 0·2 at √s=62 GeV,M being the invariant mass andy the rapidity of the muon pair. We study the sensitivity of this result to the colour gluon mass and the underlying parametrisation of the quark and gluon distribution functions.     

Spectator interactions and theK-factor in the Drell-Yan process

The precise value of theO(α _s perturbative QCD correction to the Drell-Yan cross-section seems to depend on the calculational procedure. We show how this ambiguity is removed when proper account is taken of the additional interactions involving spectator quarks. Explicit calculations in the scalar quark model reveal that the important contributions come from values of the gluon momentum that are very soft.

     

Factorisation,parton entanglement and the Drell-Yan process

We discuss the angular distribution of the lepton pair in the Drell-Yan process, . This process gives information on the spin-density matrix of the annihilating quark-antiquark pair in . There is strong experimental evidence that even for unpolarised initial hadrons is non-trivial, and therefore the quark-antiquark system is polarised. We discuss the possibilities of a general - which could be entangled - and a factorising . We argue that instantons may lead to a non-trivial of the type indicated by experiments.Received: 6 December 2004, Published online: 9 February 2005     

Spin effects and factorization in the Drell-Yan process

We discuss the idea that the nontrivial vacuum structure in QCD may induce transverse momentum and spin correlations of the initial state partons in Drell-Yan type reactions, i.e. in hadron-hadron collisions with production of a vector bosonV=γ ^*,Z,W ^±. Transverse momentum correlations are found to have practically no effect on observable quantities, but spin correlations have drastic consequences for the polarization density matrices of theV-bosons. We therefore propose measurements of theV polarization as a good test for the basic factorization hypothesis which, so far, has been assumed to be valid in numerous applications of the naive and QCD-improved parton model. We compare our ansatz for a spin correlation violating factorization with data from the NA 10 collaboration onγ ^* production inπ ^? N scattering. We find that the data give an indication of spin correlations of the partons in the initial state to be present.     

Mesonic and binding contributions to the nuclear Drell-Yan process

We have evaluated the Drell-Yan cross section in nuclei paying special attention to the meson cloud contribution from pions and ϱ-mesons, for which an accurate calculation using the meson nuclear spectral functions is used. Similarly, the nucleonic contribution is evaluated in terms of a relativistic nucleon spectral function. Fair agreement with experiment is found for different nuclei and the results show a sizeable contribution from the renormalized meson cloud. In order to reproduce the experiment a novel element is introduced, consisting of a gradual energy loss of the incoming proton in its pass through the nucleus which produces a strong A dependence at x₁ large.     

Factorization for one-loop corrections in the Drell-Yan process

We study all the one-loop corrections to the Drell-Yan process in QCD, including gluon exchanges involving spectator partons. Our method demonstrates weak factorization at measured dimuon Q^T, and is suitable for generalization to higher orders.     

Remarks on optimized predictions for the Drell-Yan process

We discuss the optimization of the Drell-Yan pair production cross section calculated atO(α _s ) and compare it with theO(α _s ² ) results of van Neerven et al. It is shown that the optimized predictions do agree analytically with the latter calculation near the phase space boundary. They also provide a good numerical approximation wherever the stability equations have a solution.     

Influence of quark energy loss on extracting nuclear sea quark distribution from nuclear Drell-Yan experimental data

By means of two typical kinds of quark energy loss parametrization and the nuclear parton distribu-tions determined only with lepton-nuclear deep inelastic scattering experimental data, a leading order analysis is performed on the proton-induced Drell-Yau differential cross section ratios of tungsten versus deuterium as a function of the quark momentum fraction in the beam proton and target nuclei. It is found that the theoretical results with quark energy loss are in good agreement with the experimental data. The quark energy loss effect produces approximately 3% to 11% suppression on the Drell-Yan differential cross section ratios RW/D in the range 0.05 ≤ x2≤ 0.3. The application of nuclear Drell-Yan data with heavy targets is remarkably subject to difficulty in the constraint of the nuclear sea quark distribution.     

Cancellation of Sudakov effects in the Drell-Yan process

We show, by a direct examination of Feynman graphs, that lowest-order Sudakov effects factorize from Glauber-region gluons in quark-hadron scattering. We then find that the Sudakov double logarithms cancel. This result is consistent with order-by-order factorization in perturbation theory for the Drell-Yan process.     

Influence of quark energy loss on extracting nuclear sea quark distribution from nuclear Drell-Yan experimental data

By means of two typical kinds of quark energy loss parametrization and the nuclear parton distributions determined only with lepton-nuclear deep inelastic scattering experimental data, a leading order analysis is performed on the proton-induced Drell-Yan differential cross section ratios of tungsten versus deuterium as a function of the quark momentum fraction in the beam proton and target nuclei. It is found that the theoretical results with quark energy loss are in good agreement with the experimental data. The quark energy loss effect produces approximately 3% to 11% suppression on the Drell-Yan differential cross section ratios R_W/D in the range 0.05≤x₂≤0.3. The application of nuclear Drell-Yan data with heavy targets is remarkably subject to difficulty in the constraint of the nuclear sea quark distribution.     

A phenomenological study of theK-factor for the Drell-Yan process

We calculate within the framework of QCD perturbation theory, the 0(α _s ) corrections to the Drell-Yan process using various beam particles and parton distributions. We attempt to extract those features of these corrections which are least sensitive to the forms of the ill-determined parameters like the quark or gluon distributions. We emphasize the necessity to exponentiate certain π² terms in order to accommodate the available data in the relevant kinematical range.     

Large perturbative corrections to the Drell-Yan process in QCD

The total cross section $\text{d}\text{σ}\text{d}\text{Q}{}^2$ for the production of a muon pair of invariant mass Q²via the Drell-Yan mechanism and the Feynman x_F differential cross section $\text{d}{}^2\text{σ}\text{d}\text{Q}{}^2\text{d}\text{x}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>F</mtext>}}$ are calculated in QCD retaining all terms up to order α_s(Q². The calculations are performed using dimensional regularisation of the intermediary infrared and collinear singularities, but we present our results in a form independent of such details. The corrections to both these cross sections coming from radiative corrections to the lowest-order $\text{q}\text{q}$ annihilation diagram are found to be large at present values of Q² and S when the cross section is expressed in terms of parton densities derived from leptonproduction, for all Drell-Yan processes of practical interest. Numerical calculations are presented which show, for any reasonable parametrisation of the parton densities, that the neglect of higher-order terms in α_s(Q²) is not justifiable. The quark-gluon diagrams on the other hand give small corrections in this order and are only important for PP scattering.     

改进的核密度模型与强子-核Drell-Yan过程中的核效应

提出了改进的核密度模型，用唯象的方法找到了束缚核子内价夸克和海夸克的核效应的参数公式，其中利用了核密度与原子核的平均结合能之间的联系. 利用该模型所得到的束缚核子内部分子分布函数，对强子与核的Drell-Yan过程的核效应给出了满意的解释, 深化了对原子核内夸克分布受核效应影响的认识. 关键词： 核密度模型 核效应 强子-核Drell-Yan过程