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Transverse parton distribution functions at next-to-next-to-leading order: the quark-to-quark case

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2

Abstract

We present a calculation of the perturbative quark-to-quark transverse parton distribution function at next-to-next-to-leading order based on a gauge invariant operator definition. We demonstrate for the first time that such a definition works beyond the first non-trivial order. We extract from our calculation the coefficient functions relevant for a next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic QTQ_T resummation in a large class of processes at hadron colliders.

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@article{arxiv.1209.0682,
  title  = {Transverse parton distribution functions at next-to-next-to-leading order: the quark-to-quark case},
  author = {Thomas Gehrmann and Thomas Lübbert and Li Lin Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0682},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, revised version, accepted for publication in PRL