Abstract
Abstract We present a derivation of the threshold resummation formula for the Drell–Yan rapidity distribution. Our argument is valid for all values of rapidity and to all orders in perturbative QCD and can be applied to all Drell–Yan processes in a universal way, i.e. both for the production of a virtual photon γ ∗ and the production of a vector boson W ± , Z 0 . We show that for the fixed-target experiment E866/NuSea used in current parton fits, the NLL resummation corrections are comparable to NLO fixed-order corrections and are crucial to obtain agreement with the data.
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