Consider Drell-Yan process
P+P′→l+l†,(1)
where P,P′ are partons inside colliding nucleons N,N′, and l is lepton. The process (1) describes the general process N+N′→l+l†+X in the case
tparton≫tint,(2)
where tparton is a lifetime of the parton virtual state inside the nucleon, and tint is characteristic interaction time of the process (1). The assumption (2) is called impulse approximation and historically appeared in Drell and Yan papers on parton model.
In https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0051.pdf is written that on the modern QCD language (2) is replaced by the (roughly speaking) factorization condition
Q2≫Λ2QCD,(3)
see Eq. (33), where Q2 is the invariant pair of partons pair. The condition (3) is simply interpreted as perturbativity condition in QCD. However, I don't clearly understand its relation to (2), since the latter should obviously depend on the type of the interaction (as the interaction rate of the process, i.e. the right hand-side of (2), is given by the transition probability per unit time).
Could anyone please explain why people use condition (3) as the criterion of applicability of the Drell-Yan process for describing lepton pair production?