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Nuclear effects in Drell-Yan production at the LHC

Krelina, M. ; Flach Basso, Eduardo LU ; Goncalves, V. P. LU ; Nemchik, J. and Pasechnik, R. LU (2016) 45th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, ISMD 2015 120.
Abstract

Using the color dipole formalism we study production of Drell-Yan (DY) pairs in proton-nucleus interactions in the kinematic region corresponding to LHC experiments. Lepton pairs produced in a hard scattering are not accompanied with any final state interactions leading to either energy loss or absorption. Consequently, dileptons may serve as more efficient and cleaner probes for the onset of nuclear effects than nclusive hadron production. We perform a systematic analysis of these effects in production of Drell-Yan pairs in pPb interaction at the LHC. We present predictions for the nuclear suppression as a function of the dilepton transverse momentum, rapidity and invariant mass which can be verified by the LHC measurements. We found... (More)

Using the color dipole formalism we study production of Drell-Yan (DY) pairs in proton-nucleus interactions in the kinematic region corresponding to LHC experiments. Lepton pairs produced in a hard scattering are not accompanied with any final state interactions leading to either energy loss or absorption. Consequently, dileptons may serve as more efficient and cleaner probes for the onset of nuclear effects than nclusive hadron production. We perform a systematic analysis of these effects in production of Drell-Yan pairs in pPb interaction at the LHC. We present predictions for the nuclear suppression as a function of the dilepton transverse momentum, rapidity and invariant mass which can be verified by the LHC measurements. We found that a strong nuclear suppression can be interpreted as an effective energy loss proportional to the initial energy universally induced by multiple initial state interactions. In addition, we study a contribution of coherent effects associated with the gluon shadowing affecting the observables predominantly at small and medium-high transverse momenta.

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EPJ Web of Conferences
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120
article number
03007
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EDP Sciences
conference name
45th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, ISMD 2015
conference location
Munich, Germany
conference dates
2015-10-04 - 2015-10-09
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10.1051/epjconf/201612003007
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English
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  author       = {{Krelina, M. and Flach Basso, Eduardo and Goncalves, V. P. and Nemchik, J. and Pasechnik, R.}},
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