Single-diffractive Drell-Yan pair production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper provides predictions for single-diffractive low-mass Drell-Yan pair production at the LHC using a new set of diffractive parton distributions, highlighting potential factorisation breaking effects.

Contribution

It introduces a new set of diffractive parton distributions derived from HERA data and applies them to predict Drell-Yan production at the LHC.

Findings

Predictions for Drell-Yan production at 13 TeV LHC energy.

Identification of observables to study factorisation breaking.

Analysis based on a new diffractive parton distribution set.

Abstract

We present predictions for single-diffractive low-mass Drell-Yan pair production in $pp$ collisions at the LHC at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. Predictions are obtained adopting a factorised form for the relevant cross sections and are based on a new set of diffractive parton distributions resulting from the QCD analysis of combined HERA leading proton data. We discuss a number of observables useful to characterise the expected factorisation breaking effects.