Angular Dependence of the Nuclear Enhancement of Drell-Yan Pairs
Abstract
We calculate the nuclear enhancement in the angular distribution of Drell-Yan pairs produced in proton-nucleus reactions. Nuclear effects are encoded in universal twist-4 parton correlation functions. We find that the Lam-Tung relation for the angular coefficients of the lepton-pair distribution holds for the double-hard, but not for the soft-hard, contribution. We also predict that nuclear enhancement effects at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies can be large.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1999
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9907567
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvL..83.4261F
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 4 pages LaTeX, 5 figures