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Transverse momentum dependent distributions in $e^+e^-$ and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering using jets

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-10 v4 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The extraction of transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) is complicated by the presence of both initial- and final-state nonperturbative physics. We recently proposed measuring jets (instead of hadrons) as a solution, showing that for the Winner-Take-All jet axis the same factorization formulae valid for hadrons applied to jets of arbitrary size. This amounts to simply replacing TMD fragmentation functions by our TMD jet functions. In this paper we present the calculation of these jet functions at one loop. We obtain phenomenological results for e+ee^+e^- \to dijet (Belle II, LEP) and SIDIS (HERA, EIC) with a jet, building on the arTeMiDe code. Surprisingly, we find that the limit of large jet radius describes the full RR results extremely well, and we extract the two-loop jet function in this limit using Event2, allowing us to achieve N3^3LL accuracy. We demonstrate the perturbative convergence of our predictions and explore the kinematic dependence of the cross section. Finally, we investigate the sensitivity to nonperturbative physics, demonstrating that jets are a promising probe of proton structure.

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@article{arxiv.1904.04259,
  title  = {Transverse momentum dependent distributions in $e^+e^-$ and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering using jets},
  author = {Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes and Ignazio Scimemi and Wouter J. Waalewijn and Lorenzo Zoppi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04259},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

41 pages, 9 figures. v4: fixed an important typo in table 1 concerning the scaling of modes, together with minor typos across the text

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