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Comment on "Nonuniversality of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distributions at Small x"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-09-21 v1

Abstract

We point out that the analysis in arXiv:1003.0482 actually verifies the universality of transverse momentum dependent quark distributions at small xx, which supports the observation in our earlier work arXiv:0904.4150. Once the gluon exchanges responsible for the additional infrared divergences are factorized and summed into an exponential factor, it can be expressed as a matrix element of Wilson line operators, and treated as a nonperturbative input to the kTk_T factorization of pApA collisions. The same exponential factor has been extracted from pppp collisions in arXiv:0904.4150, rendering possible experimental constraints on its behavior from pppp processes, and predictions for pApA processes.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3610,
  title  = {Comment on "Nonuniversality of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distributions at Small x"},
  author = {Hsiang-nan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3610},
  year   = {2010}
}

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