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We discuss strategies for comparisons of nonperturbative QCD predictions for parton distribution functions (PDFs) with high-energy experiments in the region of large partonic momentum fractions $x$. Analytic functional forms for PDFs cannot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 A. Courtoy , Pavel M. Nadolsky

We discuss the dependence on the flavor of the intrinsic transverse momentum in unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent distribution functions (TMD PDFs) and fragmentation functions (TMD FFs) analyzing data of semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-10 Andrea Signori , Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici

In the original Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) presentation of the results of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) factorization for the Drell-Yan process, results for perturbative coefficients can be obtained from calculations for collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 John Collins , Ted C. Rogers

We study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions at small-x in a consistent framework that takes into account the TMD evolution and small-x evolution simultaneously. The small-x evolution effects are included by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan , Jian Zhou

Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs), in short referred to as TMDs, also take into account the transverse momentum (pT) of the partons. Just as the pT-integrated analogues we want to link them to quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 M. G. A. Buffing , P. J. Mulders , A. Mukherjee

In using transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton densities and fragmentation functions, important non-perturbative information is at large transverse position $b_T$. This concerns both the TMD functions and their evolution. Fits to high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 John Collins , Ted C. Rogers

We study parton-branching solutions of QCD evolution equations and present a method to construct both collinear and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities from this approach. We work with next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 F. Hautmann , H. Jung , A. Lelek , V. Radescu , R. Zlebcik

Using recent and updated world data on polarized structure functions $g_1$ and $g_2$ we perform QCD analysis at the next-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) accuracy. We include also target mass correction and higher twist effect to get more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Abolfazl Mirjalili , Shahin Atashbar Tehrani

We present a new method, based on Gaussian process regression, for reconstructing the continuous $x$-dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from quasi-PDFs computed using lattice QCD. We examine the origin of the unphysical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-25 Constantia Alexandrou , Giovanni Iannelli , Karl Jansen , Floriano Manigrasso

We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…

I show that the forms of the Collins-Soper-Sterman and renormalization-group equations for the evolution of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton densities in QCD follow from the structure of TMD factorization. A derivation does not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-28 John Collins

The Parton Branching (PB) approach describes the evolution of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities. We propose to extend the PB method by including TMD splitting functions, instead of the DGLAP splitting functions which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-29 Lissa Keersmaekers

We present the first global analysis of fragmentation functions (FFs) for light charged hadrons ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$) at full next-to-next-to-leading order in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), incorporating world data from both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun Gao , XiaoMin Shen , Hongxi Xing , Yuxiang Zhao , Bin Zhou

We present the first lattice QCD calculations of the isovector helicity transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) and the flavor-dependent unpolarized TMDPDFs for up and down quarks in the proton. Our computations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-18 Dennis Bollweg , Xiang Gao , Swagato Mukherjee , Yong Zhao

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 derive a factorization theorem for Drell-Yan process at low q_T using effective field theory methods. In this theorem all the obtained quantities are gauge invariant and the special role of the soft function--and its subtraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

We discuss Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) gluon distributions within high energy factorization at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling within the framework of Lipatov's high energy effective action. We provide a detailed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Martin Hentschinski

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 present for first time the computation at large $q_T$ (or small $b_T$) matching coefficients of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Function (TMDPDF) for linearly polarised to the integrated gluon distribution at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-19 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Sergio Leal Gómez , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov