High-Energy Factorization for Drell-Yan process in $pp$ and $p{\bar p}$ collisions with new Unintegrated PDFs

TL;DR

This paper introduces a high-energy factorization framework for Drell-Yan processes that unifies different formalisms and uses new unintegrated PDFs to accurately describe transverse momentum spectra and angular distributions at various energies.

Contribution

It presents a novel formalism for Drell-Yan transverse-momentum spectra that interpolates between existing models and introduces a new method for deriving unintegrated PDFs from collinear PDFs.

Findings

Excellent description of Z-boson |q_T|-spectrum at high energies.

Good fit of non-perturbative parameters at low energies.

Reasonable agreement with lepton angular distributions.

Abstract

The formalism for uniform description of Drell-Yan transverse-momentum spectrum is presented in a framework of High-Energy Factorization, which smoothly interpolates between Collins-Soper-Sterman formalism at $|{\bf q}_T|\ll Q$ and usual Collinear Parton Model at $|{\bf q}_T|\sim Q\ll \sqrt{S}$. The new formula for deriving Unintegrated Parton Distribution Functions(UPDFs) from collinear ones is introduced, which leads to excellent description of the shape of $Z$-boson $|{\bf q}_T|$-spectrum at high energies up to $|{\bf q}_T|/\sqrt{S}\simeq 0.02$. Description of normalized $|{\bf q}_T|$-distributions at low energies is achieved via the fit of non-perturbative parameters of quark UPDFs. Reasonable description of angular distributions of leptons in the dilepton center-of-mass frame is also obtained with new UPDFs.