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The extension of the statistical parton distributions to include their transverse momentum dependence (TMD) is revisited by considering that the proton target has a finite longitudinal momentum. The TMD will be generated by means of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Claude Bourrely , Franco Buccella , Jacques Soffer

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

Extracting information on the three-dimensional structure of hadrons from transverse-momentum data is a challenging task, requiring the separation of perturbative contributions under QCD control from genuinely non-perturbative effects,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-09 Andrea Simonelli

At small transverse momentum $q_T$, transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) arise as genuinely nonperturbative objects that describe Drell-Yan like processes in hadron collisions as well as semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-21 Markus A. Ebert , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We show that the gauge-invariant transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) quark distribution function can be expressed as a sum of all higher-twist collinear parton matrix elements in terms of a transport operator. From such a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zuo-tang Liang , Xin-Nian Wang , Jian Zhou

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe universal properties of bound states and allow us to calculate scattering amplitudes in processes with large momentum transfer. Calculating PDFs involves the evaluation of matrix elements with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-10 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , C. -J. David Lin , Manuel Schneider

Its cornerstone were studies of hadron production in deep inelastic scattering (DIS), which can be interpreted in the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) factorisation framework, allowing to access the distributions of polarisation and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-13 Jan Matousek

Transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) hadronic wave functions develop light-cone divergences under QCD corrections, which are commonly regularized by the rapidity $\zeta$ of gauge vector defining the non-light-like Wilson lines. The yielding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Yue-Long Shen , Yu-Ming Wang

The detailed comprehension of momentum fraction and energy dependence of proton structure functions is among the major difficulties in high-energy physics. Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) plays as an extensive foundation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

Transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) appear in many scattering processes at high energy, from the semi-inclusive DIS experiments at a few GeV to the Higgs transverse momentum distribution at the LHC. Predictions for TMD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Daniel Boer

The color gauge-invariant transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark correlators contain process dependent gauge links in the bilocal matrix elements. In this paper, we split these process dependent correlators into universal TMD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 M. G. A. Buffing , A. Mukherjee , P. J. Mulders

The interplay between the small x limit of QCD amplitudes and QCD factorization at moderate x has been studied extensively in recent years. It was finally shown that semiclassical formulations of small x physics can have the form of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Renaud Boussarie , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

In this work, we calculate a broad class of parton distributions - including parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs), generalized parton distributions (GPDs), generalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Shohini Bhattacharya , Chuan-Qi He , Zhong-Bo Kang , Diego Padilla , Jani Penttala

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

We present a first lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized nucleon's isovector transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), which are essential to predict observables of multi-scale, semi-inclusive processes in…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) and light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) are central non-perturbative objects of interest in high-energy inelastic and elastic scattering, respectively. As a result, an ab-initio determination of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-22 William Detmold , Anthony V. Grebe , Issaku Kanamori , C. -J. David Lin , Robert J. Perry , Yong Zhao

We investigate the twist-$3$ transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the pion with basis light-front quantization. The twist-3 TMDs are not independent and can be decomposed into twist-$2$ and genuine twist-$3$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zhimin Zhu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary , BLFQ Collaboration

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large $x$ are poorly constrained by high-energy experimental data, but extremely important for probing physics beyond standard model at colliders. We study the calculation of PDFs at large-$x$ through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu , Yushan Su

Using the light-front holographic model, we study the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) for the case of pion. At leading twist, the unpolarized parton distribution function $ f_{1\pi}(x,\bfk^{2}) $ and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-26 Navdeep Kaur , Harleen Dahiya

The strong force which binds hadrons is described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Determining the character and manifestations of QCD is one of the most important and challenging outstanding issues necessary for a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-06 Huey-Wen Lin