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Transverse momentum moments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-01-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We establish robust relations between Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions (TMDs) and collinear distributions. We define weighted integrals of TMDs that we call Transverse Momentum Moments (TMMs) and prove that TMMs are equal to collinear distributions evaluated in some minimal subtraction scheme. The conversion to the modified minimal subtraction (MSˉ\bar{MS}) scheme, can be done by a calculable factor, which we derive up to three loops for some cases. We discuss in detail the zeroth, the first, and the second TMMs and provide phenomenological results for them based on the current extractions of TMDs. The results of this paper open new avenues for theoretical and phenomenological investigation of the three-dimensional and collinear hadron structures.

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@article{arxiv.2402.01836,
  title  = {Transverse momentum moments},
  author = {Oscar del Rio and Alexei Prokudin and Ignazio Scimemi and Alexey Vladimirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01836},
  year   = {2025}
}

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This version matches the published version in Phys.Rev.D 110 (2024) 1, 016003 on July 1, 2024

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