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Transverse momentum dependent transversely polarized distributions at next-to-next-to-leading-order

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-08-15 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the matching of the transversity and pretzelosity transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMD) on transversity collinear distribution at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We find that the matching coefficient for pretzelosity distribution is zero, despite the matrix element for it is nontrivial. This result suggests that the pretzelosity matches a twist-4 distribution. The matching for transversity TMD distributions is provided for both parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions cases.

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@article{arxiv.1805.07243,
  title  = {Transverse momentum dependent transversely polarized distributions at next-to-next-to-leading-order},
  author = {Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes and Ignazio Scimemi and Alexey Vladimirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07243},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages. Mathematica files with details of the calculation are included