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Articles Particle Physics Transverse-momentum and Angular Distributions of Hadroproduced Muon Pairs (1978)
Transverse-momentum and Angular Distributions of Hadroproduced Muon Pairs (1978) |
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We study the angular distribution of muons in the dimuon rest frame from 
at high energy and large dimuon mass. Including smearing due to quark transverse momenta, we show that the Drell-Yan model predicts a polar angular distribution in the t-channel helicity frame of 
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. Experimental deviations from this prediction would cast serious doubt on the Drell-Yan picture.
