Abstract
The Drell-Yan massive lepton-pair production in hadronic collisions provides a unique tool complementary to the Deep-Inelastic Scattering for probing the partonic substructures in hadrons. We review key concepts, approximations, and progress for QCD factorization of the Drell-Yan process in terms of collinear or transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions. We present experimental results from recent fixed-target Drell-Yan as well as W and Z boson production at colliders, focusing on the topics of flavor structure of the nucleon sea as well as the extraction of novel Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions via single transverse spin asymmetries and azimuthal lepton angular distribution of the Drell-Yan process. Prospects for future Drell-Yan experiments are also presented.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 43-75 |
Number of pages | 33 |
Journal | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics |
Volume | 76 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2014 |
Keywords
- Drell-Yan process
- Nucleon flavor structure
- Parton distributions
- QCD factorization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics