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TMD factorization for dijet and heavy-meson pair in DIS

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-02-03 v4 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study a transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization framework for the processes of di-jet and heavy meson pair production in deep-inelastic-scattering in an electron-proton collider, considering the measurement of the transverse momentum imbalance of the two hard probes in the Breit frame. For the factorization theorem we employ soft-collinear and boosted-heavy-quark effective field theories. The factorized cross-section for both processes is sensitive to gluon unpolarized and linearly polarized TMD distributions and requires the introduction of a new soft function. We calculate the new soft function here at one loop, regulating rapidity divergences with the δ\delta-regulator. In addition, using a factorization consistency relation and a universality argument regarding the heavy-quark jet function, we obtain the anomalous dimension of the new soft function at two loops.

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@article{arxiv.2008.07531,
  title  = {TMD factorization for dijet and heavy-meson pair in DIS},
  author = {Rafael F. del Castillo and Miguel G. Echevarria and Yiannis Makris and Ignazio Scimemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.07531},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v4: matches published version in JHEP. v2: typos fixed, extended discussion on kinematic coverage. v1: 31 pages, 3 figures

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