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We present the nuclear transverse momentum broadening for Drell-Yan lepton pair production in p+A collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in powers of strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. We verify that the transverse momentum weighted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu , Xin-Nian Wang , Hongxi Xing

We study corrections suppressed by one power of the soft gluon energy to the resummation of threshold logarithms for the Drell-Yan cross section and for Deep Inelastic structure functions. While no general factorization theorem is known for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric Laenen , Lorenzo Magnea , Gerben Stavenga

We investigate the transverse momentum resummation for top quark pair production at hadron colliders using the soft-collinear effective theory and the heavy-quark effective theory. We derive the factorization formula for $t\bar{t}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Hai Tao Li , Chong Sheng Li , Ding Yu Shao , Li Lin Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We calculate the $N$-jettiness soft function for $tW$ production up to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD, which is an important ingredient of the $N$-jettiness subtraction method for predicting the differential cross sections of massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

We calculate the next-to-leading order fully unintegrated hard scattering coefficient for unpolarized gluon-induced deep inelastic scattering using the logical framework of parton correlation functions developed in previous work. In our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ted C. Rogers

The N-jettiness event shape divides phase space into N+2 regions, each containing one jet or beam. These jet regions are insensitive to the distribution of soft radiation and, with a geometric measure for N-jettiness, have circular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Teppo T. Jouttenus , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We present the first next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) calculation of the twist-2 matching coefficients for transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark transversity parton distribution and fragmentation functions in QCD. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Yu Jiao Zhu

Modern collider phenomenology requires unprecedented precision for the theoretical predictions, for which slicing techniques provide an essential tool at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling. The most popular slicing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Rong-Jun Fu , Rudi Rahn , Ding Yu Shao , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Bin Wu

We calculate next-to-next-to-leading order soft-gluon corrections to top quark total and differential cross sections in hadron colliders. We increase the accuracy of our previous estimates by including additional subleading terms, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

QCD factorization approach in the field-theoretic description of the semi-inclusive hadronic processes in the large Bjorken $x$ approximation implies extraction of the three-dimensional parton distribution functions as a convolution of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-24 I. O. Cherednikov

We present a new method to compute the soft function for the $N$-Jettiness variable for arbitrary $N$ at high perturbative orders in QCD. It is based on the observation that the most singular part of the soft function, the dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Luca Buonocore , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Pier Francesco Monni , Andrey Pikelner , Gherardo Vita

We consider the azimuthal distribution of the final observed hadron in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and the lepton pair in the Drell-Yan process. In particular, we focus on the $\cos \phi$ modulation of the unpolarized cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Alessandro Bacchetta , Giuseppe Bozzi , Miguel G. Echevarria , Cristian Pisano , Alexey Prokudin , Marco Radici

We present a framework that resums threshold enhanced large logarithms to all orders in perturbation theory for the production of a pair of leptons in Drell-Yan process and of Higgs boson in gluon fusion as well as in bottom quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-31 A. H. Ajjath , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran

In this paper, we extend the method proposed in \cite{Arkani-Hamed:2024fyd} for deriving soft theorems of amplitudes, which relies exclusively on factorization properties including conventional factorizations on physical poles, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

The distributions of two-jet event shapes contain information on hadronization in QCD. Near the two-jet limit, these distributions can be described by convolutions of nonperturbative event shape functions with the same distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher Lee , George Sterman

The inclusive decay B --> X_u l nu is of much interest because of its potential to constrain the CKM element |V_ub|. Experimental cuts required to suppress charm background restrict measurements of this decay to the shape-function region,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-08 H. M. Asatrian , C. Greub , B. D. Pecjak

Event shape observables have been widely used for precision QCD studies at various lepton and hadron colliders. We present the most accurate calculation of the transverse-energy-energy correlation event shape variable in deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev , Yu Jiao Zhu

We consider the definition of a transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) and its evolution properties given a factorization theorem of Drell- Yan lepton pair production with a non-vanishing transverse momentum. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

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

These lectures provide an introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. After discussing the expansion of Feynman diagrams around the high-energy limit, the effective Lagrangian is constructed, first for a scalar theory, then for QCD.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-21 Thomas Becher , Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia