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We present a model calculation of the T-odd transverse momentum dependent (TMD) gluon fragmentation functions for a spin-1/2 hadron. Our model is based on the postulation that a time-like off-shell gluon can fragment into a hadron and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-21 Xiupeng Xie , Zhun Lu

We explain a gluon transversity, transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs), and parton distribution functions (PDFs) for spin-1 hadrons. The gluon transversity exists in hadrons with spin more than or equal to one,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-14 S. Kumano , Qin-Tao Song

We calculate in this paper the perturbative gluon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) and fragmentation functions (TMDFFs) using the exponential regulator for rapidity divergences. We obtain results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Ming-Xing Luo , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu , Yu Jiao Zhu

We show transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for spin-1 hadrons including twist-3 and 4 functions by taking the decomposition of a quark correlation function in the Lorentz-invariant way with the conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 S. Kumano , Qin-Tao Song

A generalized idea of gauge invariance, that embodies into the Wilson lines the spin-dependent Pauli term $\sim F^{\mu\nu}[\gamma_\mu, \gamma_\nu]$, is applied to set up a new framework for the operator definition of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-24 I. O. Cherednikov , A. I. Karanikas , N. G. Stefanis

We discuss the structure of rapidity divergences that are presented in the soft factors of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorems. To provide the discussion on the most general level we consider soft factors for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-29 Alexey Vladimirov

In the TMD approach, the average transverse momentum of the unpolarised TMD PDFs and FFs is crucial not only to reproduce unpolarised cross sections and hadron multiplicities, but also for the understanding of azimuthal and spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-14 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia , A. Prokudin

We consider the transverse momentum dependent gluon distribution functions (called gluon TMDs) by studying the light-front gluon-gluon correlator, extending the results for unpolarized and vector polarized targets to also include tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Sabrina Cotogno , Tom van Daal , Piet J. Mulders

I review lattice-QCD calculations of the electromagnetic and generalized form factors (GFFs), which determine the transverse structure of the nucleon, and briefly comment on recent calculations related to transverse-momentum dependent…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 Harvey B. Meyer

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

Generalised parton distributions (GPDs) and transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) describe complementary aspects of the three-dimensional structure of hadrons. We discuss their relation to each other and recall important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Markus Diehl

We have investigated the unpolarized valence quark generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) and parton distribution functions (PDFs) for heavy spin-$0$, $B$- and $D$-mesons in the light-front quark model (LFQM). PDFs have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Satyajit Puhan , Harleen Dahiya

We present a calculation of the leading-twist (twist-2) generalized transverse momentum distributions (GTMDs) for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluons in the proton, using a recently developed light-front gluon spectator model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Dipankar Chakrabarti , Bheemsehan Gurjar , Asmita Mukherjee , Kauship Saha

In this paper we consider the parametrizations of gluon transverse momentum dependent (TMD) correlators in terms of TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs). These functions, referred to as TMDs, are defined as the Fourier transforms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Daniël Boer , Sabrina Cotogno , Tom van Daal , Piet J. Mulders , Andrea Signori , Ya-Jin Zhou

We investigate the leading twist generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs) of the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluons in the nucleon. We adopt a light-front gluon-triquark model for the nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-28 Chentao Tan , Zhun Lu

Transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDPDFs) which appear in factorized cross sections involve infinite Wilson lines with edges on or close to the light-cone. Since these TMDPDFs are not directly calculable with a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-11 Markus A. Ebert , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We investigate the collinear matching of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions at large values of $x$, computing and resumming the leading large-$x$ asymptotics for matching coefficients. The large-$x$ resummation is done…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-30 Oscar del Rio , Alexei Prokudin , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We demonstrate that gluon transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) can be extracted from lattice calculations of appropriate Euclidean correlations in large-momentum effective theory (LaMET). Based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-14 Ruilin Zhu , Yao Ji , Jian-Hui Zhang , Shuai Zhao

We investigate the emergence of single spin asymmetries (SSA) in hard processes using transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution and fragmentation functions. Specifically, the description of SSA involves time reversal-odd functions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-30 P. J. Mulders

Transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions are analyzed in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering at low transverse momentum using soft-collinear effective theory. The transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-29 Junegone Chay