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Unpolarized Quark and Gluon TMD PDFs and FFs at N$^3$LO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-07-07 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In this paper we calculate analytically the perturbative matching coefficients for unpolarized quark and gluon Transverse-Momentum-Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and Fragmentation Functions (FFs) through Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (N3^3LO) in QCD. The N3^3LO TMD PDFs are calculated by solving a system of differential equation of Feynman and phase space integrals. The TMD FFs are obtained by analytic continuation from space-like quantities to time-like quantities, taking into account the probability interpretation of TMD PDFs and FFs properly. The coefficient functions for TMD FFs exhibit double logarithmic enhancement at small momentum fraction zz. We resum such logarithmic terms to the third order in the expansion of αs\alpha_s. Our results constitute important ingredients for precision determination of TMD PDFs and FFs in current and future experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2012.03256,
  title  = {Unpolarized Quark and Gluon TMD PDFs and FFs at N$^3$LO},
  author = {Ming-xing Luo and Tong-Zhi Yang and Hua Xing Zhu and Yu Jiao Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03256},
  year   = {2021}
}

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