ALL-ORDER SUMMATION AND 2-LOOP RESULTS FOR THE DRELL-YAN CROSS-SECTION

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MAGNEA, L [1 ]
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[1] SUNY STONY BROOK,INST THEORET PHYS,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(91)90393-C
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We compare the hard part of the Drell-Yan cross section calculated at two loops by Matsuura, van der Marck and van Neerven with the predictions obtained by using resummation techniques. We observe that the convergence of the resumed expression is very good for leading and next-to-leading logarithms, and we suggest that there is room for improvement in the understanding of the remaining singular terms. Nonetheless, we find that the resumed expression predicts the two-loop K-factor with impressive accuracy.
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