Investigating the Drell-Yan transverse momentum distribution in the color dipole approach

Mar, 2003
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 67 (2003) 114008
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Report number:
  • LA-UR-03-1443

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Abstract:
We study the influence of unitarity corrections on the Drell-Yan transverse momentum distribution within the color dipole approach. These unitarity corrections are implemented through the multiple scattering Glauber-Mueller approach, which is contrasted with a phenomenological saturation model. The process is analyzed for the center of mass energies of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, s=500\sqrt{s}=500 GeV) and of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, s=14\sqrt{s}=14 TeV). In addition, the results are extrapolated down to current energies of proton-proton collisions, where non-asymptotic corrections to the dipole approach are needed. It is also shown that in the absence of saturation, the dipole approach can be related to the QCD Compton process.
  • 12.38.Aw
  • 12.38.Bx
  • 13.85.Qk
  • p p: inclusive reaction
  • lepton: pair production
  • Drell-Yan process
  • transverse momentum: spectrum
  • unitarity: correction
  • color: dipole
  • multiple scattering