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The European Physical Journal C
ISSN: 1434-6044 (printed version)
ISSN: 1434-6052 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 5 Issue 4 (1998) pp 719-722
DOI 10.1007/s100529800872
theoretical physics:
Energy loss in nuclear Drell-Yan process
Jian-Jun Yang (1)(2), Guang-Lie Li (2)(3)
(1) Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210024, China
(2) Institute of High Energy Physics, P.O. Box 918(4), Beijing 100039, China
(3) CCAST (World Laboratory), B.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, China
Received: 11 December 1997 / Published online: 30 March 1998
Abstract. By means of the nuclear parton distributions, which can be used to provide a good explanation for the EMC effect in the whole x range, we investigate the energy loss effect in the nuclear Drell-Yan (DY) process. When the cross section of lepton pair production is considered to vary with the center-of-mass energy of the nucleon-nucleon collision, we find that the nuclear DY ratio is suppressed because of the energy loss, which balances the overestimate of the DY ratio only when we consider the effect of nuclear parton distributions.
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Online publication: October 19, 1998
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