Transverse-Momentum Dependent Factorization for gamma^* pi^0 to gamma
Abstract
With a consistent definition of transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) light-cone wave function, we show that the amplitude for the process can be factorized when the virtuality of the initial photon is large. In contrast to the collinear factorization in which the amplitude is factorized as a convolution of the standard light-cone wave function and a hard part, the TMD factorization yields a convolution of a TMD light-cone wave function, a soft factor and a hard part. We explicitly show that the TMD factorization holds at one loop level. It is expected that the factorization holds beyond one-loop level because the cancelation of soft divergences is on a diagram-by-diagram basis. We also show that the TMD factorization helps to resum large logarithms of type .
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0607234,
title = {Transverse-Momentum Dependent Factorization for gamma^* pi^0 to gamma},
author = {J. P. Ma and Q. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0607234},
year = {2008}
}
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Published version in Phys.Rev.D75:014014,2007