Soft-Gluon Resummation and the Valence Parton Distribution Function of the Pion

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2010-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/1009.2481v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.105:252003,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252003

We determine the valence parton distribution function of the pion by performing a new analysis of data for the Drell-Yan process $\pi^- N\to \mu^+\mu^-X$. Compared to previous analyses, we include next-to-leading-logarithmic threshold resummation effects in the calculation of the Drell-Yan cross section. As a result of these, we find a considerably softer valence distribution at high momentum fractions $x$ than obtained in previous next-to-leading order analyses, in line with expectations based on perturbative-QCD counting rules or Dyson-Schwinger equations.

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