Motivated by the recent work of Brzemiński, Motyka, Sadzikowski and Stebel in [1], where forward Drell–Yan production is studied in proton–proton collisions at the LHC, we improve their calculation by introducing an unintegrated gluon density obtained in [2] from a fit to combined HERA data at small values of Bjorken x. This gluon density was calculated within the BFKL formalism at next-to-leading order with collinear corrections. We show that it generates a good description of the forward Drell–Yan cross section dependence on the invariant mass of the lepton pair both for LHCb and ATLAS data.
Forward Drell–Yan production at the LHC in the BFKL formalism with collinear corrections
Celiberto F. G.;
2018-01-01
Abstract
Motivated by the recent work of Brzemiński, Motyka, Sadzikowski and Stebel in [1], where forward Drell–Yan production is studied in proton–proton collisions at the LHC, we improve their calculation by introducing an unintegrated gluon density obtained in [2] from a fit to combined HERA data at small values of Bjorken x. This gluon density was calculated within the BFKL formalism at next-to-leading order with collinear corrections. We show that it generates a good description of the forward Drell–Yan cross section dependence on the invariant mass of the lepton pair both for LHCb and ATLAS data.File in questo prodotto:
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