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Recent results on the measurements of the angular polarization coefficients in the Drell–Yan process and calculations of angular polarization coefficients using the PYTHIA8, POWHEG, Madgraph, and FEWZ generators under the LHC conditions at \(\sqrt s = 13\) TeV are presented. The calculations include the QCD perturbative orders up to NNLO.
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Shalaev, V.V., Gorbunov, I.N. & Shmatov, S.V. Impact of Higher-Order QCD Effects on Angular Polarization Coefficients in the Drell–Yan Process at the LHC. Phys. Part. Nuclei 55, 150–155 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779624010143
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