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We present a calculation of the leading-twist (twist-2) generalized transverse momentum distributions (GTMDs) for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluons in the proton, using a recently developed light-front gluon spectator model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Dipankar Chakrabarti , Bheemsehan Gurjar , Asmita Mukherjee , Kauship Saha

We discuss the evolution of the eight leading twist transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions, which turns out to be universal and spin independent. By using the highest order perturbatively calculable ingredients at our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Andreas Schäfer , Ignazio Scimemi

In this talk, we summarize how QCD evolution can be exploited to improve the treatment of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and fragmentation functions. The methods allow existing non-perturbative fits to be turned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-28 S. Mert Aybat , Ted C. Rogers

We investigate the predictive power of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) distributions as a function of the light-cone momentum fraction $x$ and the hard scale $Q$ defined by the process. We apply the saddle point approximation to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-03 Manvir Grewal , Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu , Andrea Signori

We attempt to identify a path layout in the definition of transverse-momentum-dependent T-odd parton distribution functions (TMD)s which combines features of both, initial- and final-state interactions, so that it remains universal despite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-12 F. F. Van der Veken , N. G. Stefanis

We present the perturbative calculation of the leading-twist gluon transverse momentum dependent distribution functions (TMDPDFs) at one-loop level within large-momentum effective theory. By employing the basis of circular polarizations, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Xiupeng Xie , Zhun Lu

The transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs), which are defined by gauge-invariant 3D parton correlators with staple-shaped lightlike Wilson lines, can be calculated from quark and gluon correlators fixed in the Coulomb gauge on a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Yong Zhao

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

The operator definition of generalised transverse-momentum-dependent (GTMD) distributions is exploited to compute for the first time the full set of one-loop corrections to the off-forward matching functions. These functions allow one to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Valerio Bertone

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

We summarize the renormalization-group properties of transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDF)s arguing that in the light-cone gauge the overlapping ultraviolet and rapidity divergences cannot be solely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-03 N. G. Stefanis , I. O. Cherednikov , A. I. Karanikas

By using the valon model, we calculate the Transverse Momentum Distribution functions, TMDs, inside the Nucleon. TMDs indicate the probability to find partons with spin aligned (anti- aligned) to the transversely polarized nucleon. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Z. Alizadeh Yazdi , F. Taghavi-Shahri , F. Arash , M. E. Zomorrodian

We analyze the transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions in space-like and time-like hard processes involving at least two hadrons, in particular 1-particle inclusive leptoproduction, the Drell-Yan process and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Daniel Boer , P. J. Mulders , F. Pijlman

Spin is a welcome complication in the study of partonic structure that has led to new insights, even if theoretically and experimentally not all dust has settled, in particular on quark flavor dependence and gluon spin. At the same time it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 P. J. Mulders

We show transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for spin-1 hadrons including twist-3 and 4 functions by taking the decomposition of a quark correlation function in the Lorentz-invariant way with the conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 S. Kumano , Qin-Tao Song

The focus of this talk is on the transverse components of parton momenta. Like for collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs), we are also in the case of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) PDFs, talking about forward matrix elements.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 P. J. Mulders

Phenomenological studies of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions rely on the expansion in small values of the transverse separation of fields, where TMD parton distributions match onto collinear parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Simone Rodini , Alessio Carmelo Alvaro , Barbara Pasquini

We study the leading-power gluon transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) of relevance to the study of asymmetries in the scattering off transversely polarized hadrons. Next-to-leading-order perturbative calculations of these TMDs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Daniël Boer , Miguel G. Echevarria , Piet Mulders , Jian Zhou

Gluonic pole matrix elements explain the appearance of single spin asymmetries (SSA) in high-energy scattering processes. They involve a combination of operators which are odd under time reversal (T-odd). Such matrix elements appear in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Leonard Gamberg , Asmita Mukherjee , Piet J. Mulders

We discuss different operator definitions of the transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities from the point of view of their renormalization-group (RG) properties and UV evolution. We also consider the structure of the gauge links…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-04 I. O. Cherednikov , N. G. Stefanis