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We employ a simple model for nuclear modification of ordinary parton densities in a proton to evaluate the Transverse Momentum Dependent gluon and quark distributions in nuclei (nTMDs) within the popular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 A. V. Lipatov , A. V. Kotikov

This paper is a part of a series of works where we in detail examine the concept of Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD), or k_T, factorization, which is frequently encountered in the literature and is widely used in the phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 Emil Avsar

Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) encode information about the intrinsic motion of quarks inside the nucleon. They are important non-perturbative ingredients in our understanding of, e.g., azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-11 Bernhard U. Musch , Philipp Hägler , Andreas Schäfer , Dru B. Renner , John W. Negele , LHPC Collaboration

We propose a new analytical expression for the Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD, or unintegrated) gluon density in the proton. Essential phenomenological parameters are extracted from the LHC data on inclusive hadron production in $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 A. V. Lipatov , G. I. Lykasov , M. A. Malyshev

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

All (un)polarized transverse momentum dependent functions (TMDs), both distribution and fragmentation functions, are defined with the same universal soft function, which cancels spurious rapidity divergences within an individual TMD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

The recent formulation of the factorization theorem for transverse momentum spectra in terms of well-defined transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs), allows for a better understanding of the role of the perturbative and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-13 Umberto D'Alesio , Miguel G. Echevarria , Stefano Melis , Ignazio Scimemi

The evolution of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) can be formulated in a parton branching (PB) framework. We show that next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) accuracy can be achieved in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-15 A. Bermudez Martinez , F. Hautmann , L. Keersmaekers , A. Lelek , M. Mendizabal Morentin , S. Taheri Monfared , A. M. van Kampen

We study transverse-momentum-dependent factorization at twist-3 for Drell-Yan processes. The factorization can be derived straightforwardly at leading order of $\alpha_s$. But at this order we find that light-cone singularities already…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 A. P. Chen , J. P. Ma

Leading and subleading twist transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) are studied in a quark model framework provided by the bag model. A complete set of relations among different TMDs is derived, and the question…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 H. Avakian , A. V. Efremov , P. Schweitzer , F. Yuan

The transverse momentum dependent parton distribution/fragmentation functions (TMDs) are essential in the factorization of a number of processes like Drell-Yan scattering, vector boson production, semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-05 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

Parametrizing TMD parton densities and fragmentation functions in ways that consistently match their large transverse momentum behavior in standard collinear factorization has remained notoriously difficult. We show how the problem is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 J. O. Gonzalez-Hernandez , T. Rainaldi , T. C. Rogers

Following an earlier derivation by Catani-de Florian-Grazzini (2000) on the scheme dependence in the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) resummation formalism in hard scattering processes, we investigate the scheme dependence of the Transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-07 Alexei Prokudin , Peng Sun , Feng Yuan

The ultraviolet and rapidity divergences of transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions with lightlike and transverse gauge links is studied, also incorporating a soft eikonal factor. We find that in the light-cone gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-05 N. G. Stefanis , I. O. Cherednikov

In color string models, the transverse momentum distribution (TMD) is obtained through the convolution of the Schwinger mechanism with the string tension fluctuations distribution. Considering a $q$-Gaussian distribution for these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 J. R. Alvarado García , D. Rosales Herrera , P. Fierro , J. E. Ramírez , A. Fernández Téllez , C. Pajares

Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions are a key ingredient in the description of spin and azimuthal asymmetries in deep-inelastic scattering processes. Recent results from non-perturbative calculations in effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-04 H. Avakian , A. V. Efremov , P. Schweitzer , O. V. Teryaev , F. Yuan , P. Zavada

We investigate the gluon transverse momentum dependent correlators as Fourier transform of matrix elements of nonlocal operator combinations. At the operator level these correlators include both field strength operators and gauge links…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 Daniel Boer , Sabrina Cotogno , Tom van Daal , Piet J. Mulders , Andrea Signori , Yajin Zhou

In this work we consider how a parton distribution function, with an explicit transverse momentum dependence can be properly defined in a regularization-scheme independent manner. We argue that by considering a factorized form of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

We give a description of double parton scattering with measured transverse momenta in the final state, extending the formalism for factorisation and resummation developed by Collins, Soper and Sterman for the production of colourless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-15 Maarten G. A. Buffing , Markus Diehl , Tomas Kasemets

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