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We study the factorization and resummation of the $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ production at hadron colliders. The cross section in the threshold limit can be factorized into a convolution of hard and soft functions and parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-14 Hai Tao Li , Chong Sheng Li , Shi Ang Li

We calculate the Mellin moments of next-to-next-to-leading order coefficient functions of the Drell-Yan and Higgs production cross sections. The results can be expressed in term of finite harmonic sums which are maximally threefold up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Blümlein , V. Ravindran

We calculate to next-to-leading order accuracy the high-energy elastic scattering cross section for an electron off of a classical point source. We use the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ renormalization scheme to tame the ultraviolet divergences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-03 Abdullah Khalil

We evaluate the light-cone operator product expansion for the unpolarized transverse momentum dependent (TMD) operator in the background-field technique up twist-3 inclusively. The next-to-leading order (NLO) matching coefficient for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Ignazio Scimemi , Andrey Tarasov , Alexey Vladimirov

We prove a factorization theorem for heavy-to-light form factors. Our result differs in several important ways from previous proposals. A proper separation of scales gives hard kernels that are free of endpoint singularities. A general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian W. Bauer , Dan Pirjol , Iain W. Stewart

Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) is a key tool for exploring the three-dimensional structure of the nucleon through Transverse Momentum Dependent parton distributions and fragmentation functions. While leading-power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ian Balitsky , Alexei Prokudin

LHC measurements involve cuts on several observables, but resummed calculations are mostly restricted to single variables. We show how the resummation of a class of double-differential measurements can be achieved through an extension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Massimiliano Procura , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lisa Zeune

We investigate the factorization properties of the massive fermion form factor in QED, to next-to-leading power in the fermion mass, and up to two-loop order. For this purpose we define new jet functions that have multiple connections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-17 Robin van Bijleveld , Eric Laenen , Coenraad Marinissen , Leonardo Vernazza , Guoxing Wang

We develop a framework for a systematic resummation of the transverse momentum distribution of top-quark pairs produced at hadron colliders based on effective field theory. Compared to Drell-Yan and Higgs production, a novel soft function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-14 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Hai Tao Li , Ding Yu Shao , Li Lin Yang

Heavy-to-light transition form factors at large recoil energy of the light meson have been conjectured to obey a factorization formula, where the set of form factors is reduced to a smaller number of universal form factors up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 M. Beneke , Th. Feldmann

We introduce the transverse momentum dependent fragmenting jet function (TMDFJF), which appears in factorization theorems for cross sections for jets with an identified hadron. These are functions of $z$, the hadron's longitudinal momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-09 Reggie Bain , Yiannis Makris , Thomas Mehen

We show that as a result of causality-constrained coordinate space analyticity, the Drell-Yan-shape transverse-momentum dependent soft factor in the exponential regulator allows Euclidean-type parametric representations without cuts, to all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Yizhuang Liu

We derive the hard functions for all 2->2 processes in massless QCD up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant. By employing the known one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes for these processes, we obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Zhibai Zhang

We provide a precise statement of hard-soft-collinear factorization of scattering amplitudes and prove it to all orders in perturbation theory. Factorization is formulated as the equality at leading power of scattering amplitudes in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-09 Ilya Feige , Matthew D. Schwartz

In JHEP 11 (2022) 169, we performed the first complete computation of the back-to-back inclusive di-jet cross-section in Deeply Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at small $x_{\rm Bj}$ to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the Color Glass Condensate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 Paul Caucal , Farid Salazar , Björn Schenke , Tomasz Stebel , Raju Venugopalan

We derive an operator based factorization theorem for the energy-energy correlation (EEC) observable in the back-to-back region, allowing the cross section to be written as a convolution of hard, jet and soft functions. We prove the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Ian Moult , Hua Xing Zhu

We study the scattering of a single parton state with a multi-parton state to derive the complete results of perturbative coefficient functions at leading order, which appear in the collinear factorization for Single transverse-Spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 J. P. Ma , H. Z. Sang , S. J. Zhu

Neutron matter presents a unique system for chiral effective field theory (EFT), because all many-body forces among neutrons are predicted to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). We present the first complete N3LO calculation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-05 I. Tews , T. Krueger , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk

We calculate next-to-leading-order (NLO) corrections to the $B\to\pi$ transition form factors at leading twist in the $k_T$ factorization theorem. Light partons off-shell by $k_T^2$ are considered in the quark diagrams, in the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Hsiang-nan Li , Yue-Long Shen , Yu-Ming Wang

In this paper, we derive a soft theorem at leading and subleading orders within the context of BFSS matrix theory. Specifically, we consider the effective field theory describing interactions between bound states of D0-branes at leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Davide Laurenzano , John F. Wheater