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proton Peng, Jen-Chieh Beck, Douglas H Willenbrock, Scott S Fields, Brian D Prasad, Shivangi 2021-03-05T21:36:58Z 2021-03-05T21:36:58Z 2020-11-19 2020-12 SeaQuest is a fixed-target experiment at Fermilab using 120 GeV proton beam from the Main Injector. High-mass muon pairs from the interaction of proton beam with various liquid and solid targets were detected in a newly constructed spectrometer. The primary goal of the experiment is to study the sea quark contents in nucleons and nuclei. In particular, the Drell-Yan cross-section ratios for liquid deuterium over hydrogen will allow the measurement of sea quark asymmetry, $\bar{d}/\bar{u}$, for Bjorken-{\it x} ranging from 0.1 to 0.45, extending the measurements of the previous experiment NuSea/E866. Improved statistics expected at SeaQuest for ${\it x}>0.25$ will allow us to check the surprising behaviour of $\bar{d}/\bar{u}$ at large {\it x} observed in NuSea. Additionally, SeaQuest data also provides the opportunity to study other very interesting physics. One such physics is the absolute p+d and p+p Drell-Yan differential cross-section ($M^3d^2\sigma/dMdx_F$). The measurement of the Drell-Yan cross-section allows improved constraints on the magnitude and shape of sea and valence parton distribution functions (PDFs). In particular, the p+d measurement is sensitive to the $\bar{d}(x)+\bar{u}(x)$ distribution. This quantity is required for extracting $\bar{d}(x)-\bar{u}(x)$ from $\bar{d}(x)/\bar{u}(x)$. The current global PDFs for light sea quarks are very poorly constrained beyond Bjorken-{\it x} $>$ 0.3. SeaQuest coverage in dimuon mass ($M_{\mu^-\mu^+}$) ranging from 4.2 GeV to 8.8 GeV (equivalently $\sqrt{\tau}$ in range 0.3 to 0.9 ) and Feynman-{\it x} ($x_F$) ranging from 0 to 0.8 will extend the measurement from NuSea. Current results are presented in chapter 5. A comparison of E866 p+d and E772 p+d measurement is presented in chapter 8. The transverse momentum dependence of the Drell-Yan cross-sections has also been presented. Results on double differential cross sections ($d^2\sigma/dMdp_T$ and $d^2\sigma/dx_Fdp_T$) from p+d and p+p Drell-Yan data from SeaQuest are presented in chapter 7. The analysis of $p_T$ distribution from SeaQuest data will provide the value of $<p_T>$ for the lowest value of $\sqrt{s}$ in the study of dependence of $<p_T>$ on $\sqrt{s}$. Additionally, $p_T$ data from existing Drell-Yan experiments have been analyzed and compiled systematically to study possible dependence such as $<p_T>$ on $x_F$ and $M_{\mu^{-}\mu^{+}}$ of dimuon. The only published result on the dependence of $<p_T>$ on $x_F$ has been reported by pion induced Drell-Yan experiment, E615. This thesis presents the dependence of $<p_T>$ on $x_F$ for proton-induced Drell-Yan data from E866 and E906. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2021-03-04 without embargo terms The student, Shivangi Prasad, accepted the attached license on 2020-11-17 at 11:51. The student, Shivangi Prasad, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-11-17 at 13:02. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-11-19 at 16:49. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15896 on 2021-03-04 at 15:34:36 Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:36:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 PRASAD-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf: 3271611 bytes, checksum: 3e344f0442039a46baaf1c6f57a7b133 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4212 bytes, checksum: da67677e94d82014b2092db9f5e16bc3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-11-19 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109365 en Copyright 2020 Shivangi Prasad Drell-Yan SeaQuest Absolute cross section deuterium Measurement of high-mass dimuon production for p+p and p+d collisions with 120 GeV proton beam at Fermilab text Thesis Physics Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.