DATA REVIEW - A COMPILATION OF DRELL-YAN CROSS-SECTIONS

A compilation of data on Drell-Yan cross sections above a lepton-pair mass of 4 GeV/c2 is presented. The relevant experiments at Fermilab and CERN are included dating from approximately 1977 to the present day, covering p, pBAR and pi+/- beams on a variety of nuclear and hydrogen targets, with centre-of-mass energies from 8.6 GeV to 630 GeV. The type of data presented include dsigma/dm, d2sigma/dm dx and d2sigma/dm dy distributions as well as other variations of these, and also transverse momentum distributions. The data are compared with a standard theoretical model, and a phenomenological 'K-factor' for each data set is calculated. All the data in this review can be found in and retrieved from the Durham-RAL HEP Databases (HEPDATA on the RAL and CERN VM systems and on the DURPDG VAX/VMS system and also on the World-Wide-Web information system) together with data on a wide variety of other reactions.