Dilepton Rapidity Distribution in Drell-Yan Production to Third Order in QCD

Chen, Xuan; Gehrmann, Thomas; Glover, Nigel; Huss, Alexander; Yang, Tong-Zhi; Zhu, Hua Xing

Abstract

We compute for the first time the lepton-pair rapidity distribution in the photon-mediated Drell-Yan process to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The calculation is based on the qT -subtraction method, suitably extended to this order for quark-antiquark initiated Born processes. Our results display sizeable QCD corrections at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order over the full rapidity region and provide a fully independent confirmation of the recent results for the total Drell-Yan cross section at this order.

Citation

Chen, X., Gehrmann, T., Glover, N., Huss, A., Yang, T.-Z., & Zhu, H. X. (2022). Dilepton Rapidity Distribution in Drell-Yan Production to Third Order in QCD. Physical Review Letters, 128(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.052001

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 12, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Feb 3, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 25, 2022
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Print ISSN: 0031-9007
• Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 128
• Issue: 5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.052001
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1206339