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We summarize recent developments in understanding the concept of generalized parton distributions (GPDs), its relation to nucleon structure, and its application to high-Q2 electroproduction processes. Following a brief review of QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-24 C. Weiss

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

This work introduces a novel, nonparametric pixel-based framework for the Bayesian inference and imaging of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions. The methodology is built upon a fully differentiable framework that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Marco Zaccheddu , Leonard Gamberg , Wally Melnitchouk , Daniel Pitonyak , Alexei Prokudin , Jian-Wei Qiu , Nobuo Sato

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

We discuss recent developments in the understanding of gauge-invariant transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton-distribution functions (PDF). We compute the leading-order $\overline{\text{MS}\vphantom{^1}}$-scheme anomalous dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-26 N. G. Stefanis , I. O. Cherednikov

We present some recently obtained results on transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs), the latter being important ingredients for the description of semi-inclusive hadronic processes. Special attention is payed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-27 I. O. Cherednikov , N. G. Stefanis

This article gives an introduction to transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions and their use in shower Monte Carlo event generators for high-energy hadron collisions, and describes recent progress in the treatment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-30 F. Hautmann , M. Hentschinski , H. Jung

Recent analyses of backward meson electroproduction support the validity of a collinear QCD factorization framework for these hard exclusive reactions. This opens a way to the extraction of nucleon-to-meson transition distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-13 Bernard Pire , Kirill Semenov-Tian-Shansky , Lech Szymanowski

In this paper we make re-analysis of a self-similarity based model of the proton structure function at small $x$ pursued in recent years. The additional assumption is that it should be singularity free in the entire kinematic range $0\leq…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-05 D. K. Choudhury , Baishali Saikia

Transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) were investigated at the twists 3 and 4 for spin-1 hadrons in addition to the twist-2 ones. They were found by studying all the possible decomposition of a quark correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 S. Kumano , Qin-Tao Song

We discuss the state-of-the-art of the theory of transverse-momentum dependent parton densities (TMD)s, paying special attention to their renormalization properties, the structure of the gauge links in the operator definition, and the role…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 I. O. Cherednikov , N. G. Stefanis

We revisit the model for parametrization of momentum dependence of nucleon generalized parton distributions in the light of recent MRST measurements of parton distribution functions. Our parametrization method with minimum set of free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Neetika Sharma

Soft-gluon resolution scales characterize parton branching Monte Carlo implementations of the evolution equations for parton distribution functions in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We examine scenarios with dynamical, i.e., branching-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 F. Hautmann , L. Keersmaekers , A. Lelek , S. Sadeghi Barzani , S. Taheri Monfared

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton correlators describing the partonic structure of hadrons contain gauge links, required by color gauge invariance. The required gauge links enter in the matrix elements that contain the parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-02 M. G. A. Buffing , A. Mukherjee , P. J. Mulders

The unpolarised transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions are extracted from HERMES and COMPASS experimental measurements of SIDIS multiplicities for charged hadron production. The data are grouped into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , J. O. Gonzalez H. , S. Melis , A. Prokudin

We discuss prospects for Monte Carlo event generators incorporating the dynamics of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions. We illustrate TMD evolution in the parton branching formalism, and present Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-09 F. Hautmann

Using our formalism of parton virtuality distribution functions (VDFs) we establish a connection between the transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) ${\cal F} (x, k_\perp^2)$ and quasi-distributions $Q(y,P_z)$ introduced recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Anatoly Radyushkin

We investigate the use of jets to measure transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs). The example we use to present our framework is the dijet momentum decorrelation at lepton colliders. Translating this momentum decorrelation into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lorenzo Zoppi

We derive a nonperturbative transverse momentum distribution for partons using a potential model to describe the quark-quark interaction inside the proton. We use this distribution to calculate the diferential cross-section of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. K. Diakonos , G. D. Galanopoulos , X. N. Maintas

We study transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) gluon distributions and factorization theorems for the gluon-initiated semi-inclusive processes at hadron colliders. Gauge-invariant TMD gluon distributions are defined, and their relations to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Ping Ma , Feng Yuan