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We study the impact of parton correlations on the double Drell-Yan process, i.e. on the production of two electroweak gauge bosons by double parton scattering in a single proton-proton collision. Spin correlations between two partons in a proton are shown to change the overall rate of the process and to induce characteristic angular correlations between the decay leptons of the two gauge bosons.
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Kasemets, T., Diehl, M. Angular correlations in the double Drell-Yan process. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 121 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)121
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