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arxiv: hep-ph/0102198 · v1 · pith:BAZS5WMVnew · submitted 2001-02-15 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Drell-Yan Massive Lepton-Pair's Angular Distributions at Large Q_T

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keywords lepton-pairangulardistributionsdrell-yanmassivelargepolarizationvirtual
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By measuring Drell-Yan massive lepton-pair's angular distributions, we can identify the polarization of the virtual photon of invariant mass $Q$ which decays immediately into the lepton-pair. In terms of a modified QCD factorization formula for Drell-Yan process, which is valid even if $Q_T\gg Q$, we calculate the massive lepton-pair's angular distributions at large $Q_T$. We find that the virtual photons produced at high $Q_T$ are more likely to be transversely polarized. We discuss the implications of this finding to the J/$\psi$ mesons' polarization measured recently at Fermilab.

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