We suggest that the Drell-Yan mechanism, when applied to low-mass dilepton production, underestimates the yield by a factor -25 because it neglects the contribution coming from annihilation of produced partonantiparton pairs. If this is correct, the observed direct lepton production may be accounted for by electromagnetic production of low-mass dileptons possessiilg high total transverse momentum.
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