Dilepton rapidity distribution in the Drell-Yan process at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD.
We compute the rapidity distribution of the virtual photon produced in the Drell-Yan process through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. We introduce a powerful new method for calculating differential distributions in hard scattering processes. This method is based upon a generalization of the optical theorem; it allows the integration-by-parts technology developed for multiloop diagrams to be applied to noninclusive phase-space integrals, and permits a high degree of automation. We apply our results to the analysis of fixed-target experiments.
Anastasiou
Charalampos
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309, USA.
Dixon
Lance
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Melnikov
Kirill
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Petriello
Frank
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