Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-03-10
Phys.Rev.D84:034038,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034038
We present a decomposition of the hadronic tensor for a general polarized Drell-Yan process AB --> l^+ l^- X in terms of helicity structure functions using the helicity axes of the dilepton rest frame as a basis. Next, we consider a QCD parton model and in the framework of a generalized QCD factorization scheme, which applies when the dilepton invariant mass M is much larger than the transverse component of the photon momentum, q_T, in the hadronic center of mass frame. In this approximation we compute the angular distribution of the unpolarized Drell Yan cross section and of the Sivers effect, in single polarized Drell-Yan scattering, by taking into account the transverse motion of partons inside the initial hadrons, k_\perp. Interesting and simple results are found in the kinematical region of k_\perp similar to q_T << M, to first order in a q_T / M expansion. Finally, explicit analytical expressions, convenient for phenomenological studies, are obtained assuming a factorized Gaussian dependence on intrinsic momenta for the unpolarized and Sivers distribution functions, in analogy to those obtained for semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering.
Boglione Maria
Melis Stefano
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