Massive Lepton Pair Production‐‐What has QCD Done to the Classical Drell‐Yan Model?

Abstract

A report is presented of recent experimental and theoretical progress in studies of the production of massive lepton pairs in hadronic collisions. Among the topics discussed are deviations from scaling, the status of the proofs of factorization in the parton model, higher‐order terms in the QCD expansion, the discrepancy between measured and predicted yields (K factor), high‐twist terms, soft gluon effects, and transverse momentum distributions.