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Experimental results on the Drell–Yan process obtained with the CMS detector in the first run of the Large Hadron Collider are briefly reviewed. Some original results on this process are presented, and the prospects for its further investigations in the second LHC run are analyzed.
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Original Russian Text © Y.V. Dydyshka, V.L. Yermolchyk, J.G. Suarez, N.M. Shumeiko, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2016.
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Dydyshka, Y.V., Yermolchyk, V.L., Suarez, J.G. et al. Investigations of the Drell–Yan process at the LHC: Results and prospects. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 13, 279–284 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477116030109
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