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Drell-Yan program at Fermilab and beyond

ORAL · Invited

Abstract

Polarized Drell-Yan scattering has become a major focus in the hadronic physics community, motivated by the fundamental prediction of QCD that postulates that a time-reversal-odd distribution function, such as the Sivers function, measured in Drell-Yan must have the opposite sign when measured with semi-inclusive DIS. The big attraction for a polarized Drell-Yan program at the Fermilab Main Injector is the combination of high luminosity, large x-coverage and highly polarized targets that makes Fermilab arguably the best place to measure single-spin asymmetries in polarized Drell-Yan scattering with high precision. I will discuss plans for polarized Drell-Yan experiments at Fermilab and compare them with measurements at other laboratories around the world.

Presenters

  • Wolfgang B Lorenzon

    University of Michigan

Authors

  • Wolfgang B Lorenzon

    University of Michigan