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I review the spin dependent structure functions which control dominant (twist-2) and sub-dominant (twist-3) phenomena in hard processes. Novel effects associated with chirally odd parton distributions and with transverse polarization are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. Jaffe

We derive mass corrections for semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of leptons from nucleons using a collinear factorization framework which incorporates the initial state mass of the target nucleon and the final state mass of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Accardi , T. Hobbs , W. Melnitchouk

A review is presented of some aspects of semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering and transversity. In particular, the role of $k_T$-dependent and higher-twist (or multi-parton) distributions in generating single-spin asymmetries is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Philip G. Ratcliffe

We establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for the electron-positron single-inclusive annihilation (SIA) process that incorporates higher-twist contributions up to twist-4 and demonstrate that these effects should be considered in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-18 Jing Zhao , Yongjie Deng , Tianbo Liu , Weihua Yang

We study the Sivers asymmetry in semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering. We concentrate on the contribution from the photon-gluon fusion channel at ${\cal O}(\alpha_{em}^2 \alpha_s)$, where three-gluon correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Ling-Yun Dai , Zhong-Bo Kang , Alexei Prokudin , Ivan Vitev

We present the first simultaneous global QCD analysis of unpolarized transverse momentum dependent (TMD) and collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Our study incorporates data from deep-inelastic scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-16 P. C. Barry , A. Prokudin , T. Anderson , C. Cocuzza , L. Gamberg , W. Melnitchouk , E. Moffat , D. Pitonyak , J. -W. Qiu , N. Sato , A. Vladimirov , R. M. Whitehill

Inclusive and diffractive structure functions for electron-proton scattering are calculated in a semiclassical approach at large momentum transfer $Q^2$ and small values of the scaling variable $x$. The basic process is the production of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 W. Buchmuller , A. Hebecker

We perform a re-analysis of Belle data for the transverse $\Lambda$ and $\bar\Lambda$ polarization in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation processes within a transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization approach. We consider two data sets, one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Umberto D'Alesio , Leonard Gamberg , Francesco Murgia , Marco Zaccheddu

We provide the exact generating function for semi-flexible and super-flexible interacting partially directed walks and also analyse the solution in detail. We demonstrate that while fully flexible walks have a collapse transition that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. L. Owczarek , T. Prellberg

Transverse parton momentum dependent distribution functions (TMDs) of the nucleon are studied in a covariant model, which describes the intrinsic motion of partons in terms of a covariant momentum distribution. The consistency of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 A. V. Efremov , P. Schweitzer , O. V. Teryaev , P. Zavada

During polymer translocation driven by e.g. voltage drop across a nanopore, the segments in the cis-side is incessantly pulled into the pore, which are then pushed out of it into the trans-side. This pulling and pushing polymer segments are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuya Saito , Takahiro Sakaue

In this work, we present a complete theoretical framework for analyzing the distribution of polarized hadrons within jets, with and without measuring the transverse momentum relative to the standard jet axis. Using soft-collinear effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Zhong-Bo Kang , Hongxi Xing , Fanyi Zhao , Yiyu Zhou

When studying the production of minijets and transverse energy flow in high energy hadron-hadron or nucleus-nucleus collisions, two essential points have to be taken into account. First, one has to account for the virtuality of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gösta Gustafson , Gabriela Miu

We apply the transverse momentum dependent factorization formalism to investigate the transverse single spin dependent Collins asymmetry with a $\sin(\phi_h+\phi_s)$ modulation in the semi-inclusive production of Kaon meson in deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Shi-Chen Xue , Xiaoyu Wang , De-Min Li , Zhun Lu

The singular behaviour of QCD squared amplitudes in the collinear limit is factorized and controlled by splitting kernels with a process-independent structure. We use these kernels to define collinear functions that can be used in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-11 Stefano Catani , Prasanna K. Dhani

When more than one hadron takes part in a hard process, an extended set of quark distribution and fragmentation functions becomes relevant. In this talk, the derivation of Soffer-like bounds for these functions, in the case of a spin-1/2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Henneman

This work is dedicated to the study of power expansion in the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorem. Each genuine term in this expansion gives rise to a series of kinematic power corrections (KPCs). All terms of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-08 Alexey Vladimirov

Fracture functions, originally suggested to describe the production of diffractive and leading hadrons in semi-inclusive DIS, may be also applied at fixed target energies. They may also include interference and final state interaction,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Teryaev

The combined measurements of proton's structure functions in deeply inelastic scattering at the HERA collider provide high-precision data capable of constraining parton density functions over a wide range of the kinematic variables. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Hautmann , H. Jung

We show that both the k_T- and collinear factorization for the DIS structure functions can be obtained by consecutive reductions of the Compton scattering amplitude. Each of these reductions is an approximation valid under certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-03 B. I. Ermolaev , M. Greco , S. I. Troyan