Spin dependent drell-yan beyond leading order: Non-singlet virtual corrections to {bigcirc}{alpha}{sup 2 subs}
Author(s) -
S. Chang,
Claudio Corianò,
R. D. Field
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/468495
Subject(s) - parton , physics , singlet state , particle physics , helicity , drell–yan process , spins , gluon , nuclear physics , quark , excited state , condensed matter physics
We present parton-level analytical results for the next-to-leading order non-singlet virtual corrections to the Drell-Yan differential cross section. The dependence of the differential cross section on the helicity of the initial state partons is shown explicitly (the spins of the final state partons are summed). The calculation is implemented in dimensional regularization within the {ovr MS} scheme and with the t`Hooft Veltman prescriptions for the n-dimensional {gamma}{sub 5}. Both the polarized initial state and the unpolarized cross sections can be obtained from our result. Our unpolarized cross section agrees with the previous result of Ellis, Martinelli and Petronzio in the non-singlet sector. 13 refs., 4 figs
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