Tuesday, June 18, 2013

1306.3829 (H. Haider et al.)

Nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process    [PDF]

H. Haider, M. Sajjad Athar, I. Ruiz Simo, S. K. Singh
We study nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan processes at small target x using quark parton distribution functions and nucleon structure functions for a bound nucleon calculated in a microscopic nuclear model which takes into account the effect of Fermi motion, nuclear binding and nucleon correlations through a relativistic spectral function. The contributions of $\pi$ and $\rho$ mesons, target mass corrections and nuclear shadowing are also included. The results are compared with the theoretical and experimental results. The model is able to successfully explain the low target x results of E772 and E866 Drell-Yan experiments and is applicable to the forthcoming experimental analysis of E906 Sea Quest experiment at Fermi Lab.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3829

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