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Transverse momentum dependent factorization for SIDIS at next-to-leading power

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-01-15 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) is the golden process for investigating the nucleon's transverse momentum-dependent (TMD) structure. We present the complete expression for SIDIS structure functions in the TMD factorization formalism at the next-to-leading power. All perturbative elements of the factorization theorem -- coefficient functions and evolution kernels -- are presented at one-loop accuracy. We found several differences with earlier derivations, which are due to accounting for nontrivial kinematics of the quark-gluon interference terms. As a side result, we present the definition and evolution of twist-three TMD fragmentation functions, including the leading-order evolution kernel.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09495,
  title  = {Transverse momentum dependent factorization for SIDIS at next-to-leading power},
  author = {Simone Rodini and Alexey Vladimirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09495},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

36 pages, 2 figures v3: fixed typos in Eq. 29, B.5,6,7