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The lepton angular distributions of the Drell-Yan process in the fixed-target experiments are investigated by NLO and NNLO perturbative QCD. We present the calculated angular parameters $\lambda$, $\mu$, $\nu$ and the degree of violation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-01 Wen-Chen Chang , Randall Evan McClellan , Jen-Chieh Peng , Oleg Teryaev

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

Single transverse-spin asymmetries have been studied intensively both in experiment and theory. Theoretically, two factorization approaches have been proposed. One is by using transverse-momentum-dependent factorization and the asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 J. P. Ma , H. Z. Sang

The longitudinal-transverse spin asymmetry A_{LT} in the polarized Drell-Yan process depends on the twist-3 spin-dependent distributions of nucleon. In addition to the contributions expressed as matrix element of the twist-3 operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuji Koike , Kazuhiro Tanaka , Shinsuke Yoshida

We calculate transverse momentum dependent quark splitting kernels $P_{gq}$ and $P_{qq}$ within $k_T$-factorization, completing earlier results which concentrated on gluon splitting functions $P_{gg}$ and $P_{qg}$. The complete set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Oleksandr Gituliar , Martin Hentschinski , Krzysztof Kutak

We compute the quark and gluon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative QCD. Our calculation is based on an expansion of the differential Higgs boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Markus A. Ebert , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita

We investigate the theoretical framework of the $\cos 2\phi$ azimuthal asymmetry contributed by the coupling of two Boer-Mulders functions in the dilepton production unpolarized $\pi p$ Drell-Yan process by applying the transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Xiaoyu Wang , Wenjuan Mao , Zhun Lu

We reanalyze the anomalous angular distribution of lepton pairs produced in a pion-induced Drell-Yan process by taking into account the Glauber gluon effect in the $k_T$ factorization theorem. Compared to the previous study, we adopt the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Hsiang-nan Li

We calculate the double-spin transverse asymmetries for the Drell-Yan lepton pair production in p-p and p-anti p collisions. We assume the transverse and the longitudinal polarization densities to be equal at a very small scale, as it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Barone , T. Calarco , A. Drago

The azimuthal dependence of hadrons produced in lepton scattering off a polarized hadron probes the quark transverse-spin distributions. In the calculation of the asymmetries, transverse momenta of quarks in the distribution and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. D. Tangerman , P. J. Mulders

The internal motion of partons inside hadrons has been studied through its impact on very low transverse momentum spectra of Drell-Yan (DY) pairs created in hadron-hadron collisions. We study DY production at next-to-leading order using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-17 I. Bubanja , H. Jung , A. Lelek , N. Raicevic , S. Taheri Monfared

The transverse momentum distribution of low-mass Drell-Yan pairs is calculated in QCD perturbation theory with all-order resummation. We argue that at LHC energies the results should be reliable for the entire transverse momentum range. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 George Fai , Jianwei Qiu , Xiaofei Zhang

It is shown that the azimuthal dependence of the distribution of hadrons in a quark jet is a probe of the transverse spin of the quark initiating the jet. This results in a new spin-dependent fragmentation function that acts at the twist-2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 John Collins

We extract the pion transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution by fitting the pion-induced Drell-Yan process within the framework of TMD factorization. The analysis is done at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexey Vladimirov

We present an extraction of the unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions that takes into account possible differences between quark flavors and final-state hadrons. The extraction is based on…

We calculate a single transverse-spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan lepton-pair's angular distribution in perturbative QCD. At leading order in the strong coupling constant, the asymmetry is expressed in terms of a twist-3 quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Daniel Boer , Jianwei Qiu

The lepton angular distributions of the Drell-Yan process in fixed-target experiments are investigated by NLO and NNLO perturbative QCD. We present the calculated angular parameters $\lambda$, $\mu$, $\nu$ and the degree of violation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-28 Wen-Chen Chang , Randall Evan McClellan , Jen-Chieh Peng , Oleg Teryaev

We study the single-transverse spin asymmetry in semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering. We derive the leading contribution to the asymmetry at moderate transverse momentum $P_{h\perp}$ of the produced hadron in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Wei Qiu , Werner Vogelsang , Feng Yuan

The quark-parton model calculation including the effects of intrinsic transverse momentum and of all six twist-two distribution functions of quarks in polarized nucleons is performed. It is demonstrated that new twist-two quark distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Aram Kotzinian

The measurement of the angular distribution of leptons from the decay of a $W$, $Z$, $\gamma^{\ast}$, or $\Jpsi$ produced at high transverse momentum in hadronic collisions provides a detailed test of the production and decay mechanism of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 E. Mirkes , J. Ohnemus