Associated production of one particle and a Drell-Yan pair in hadronic collisions

by Dr Federico Ceccopieri (ULB)

Thursday 25 Mar 2010, 16:00 → 17:15 Europe/Brussels

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

We demonstrate to one loop level in the strong coupling and within a fracture functions approach a collinear factorization formula for the associated production of one particle and a Drell-Yan pair in hadronic collisions. Next-to-leading coefficients functions for double differential cross-sections in the fractional energy of the identified hadron and lepton pair invariant mass are presented. Potential applications of this method to the study of underlying event and heavy flavour production are discussed.