Drell-Yan dimuon production with transversely polarized protons
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 48 (5) , 2073-2082
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.48.2073
Abstract
We carefully study dimuon production by transversely polarized protons. It is shown that this process should provide a good tool to uncover the parton distributions of the transversely polarized proton. In particular we calculate the corrections to the total Drell-Yan cross section and the rapidity differential cross section and find that the respective cross section asymmetries are rather stable.
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