Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 56
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4626-y

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Single-diffractive Drell–Yan pair production at the LHC

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
² IFPA, Université de Liège, 4000, Liège, Belgium

^* e-mail: federico.alberto.ceccopieri@cern.ch

Received: 25 August 2016
Accepted: 16 January 2017
Published online: 28 January 2017

Abstract

We present predictions for single-diffractive low-mass Drell–Yan pair production in pp collisions at the LHC at  TeV. Predictions are obtained adopting a factorised form for the relevant cross sections and are based on a new set of diffractive parton distributions resulting from the QCD analysis of combined HERA leading proton data. We discuss a number of observables useful to characterise the expected factorisation breaking effects.