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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

There is considerable controversy about the size and importance of nonperturbative contributions to the evolution of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions. Standard fits to relatively high-energy Drell-Yan data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-11 John Collins , Ted Rogers

Based on the factorization representation of the General Parton Distributions (GPDs) the momentum transfer dependence was determined by the analysis of the different representations of parton distribution functions (PDFs) and all possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 O. V. Selyugin

In the field theoretical description of hadronic scattering processes, single transverse-spin asymmetries arise due to gluon initial and final state interactions. These interactions lead to process dependent Wilson lines in the operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Bomhof , P. J. Mulders

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution correlators can be parametrized in terms of TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs), or TMDs for short. We provide an overview of the leading-twist quark and gluon TMDs, both in momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Tom van Daal

We show possible transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for spin-1 hadrons including twist-3 and 4 functions in addition to the leading twist-2 ones by investigating all the possible decomposition of a quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 S. Kumano , Qin-Tao Song

The cross section for transverse momentum dependent double parton scattering involves transverse momentum dependent double parton distributions (DTMDs). In the region of perturbative transverse momentum the DTMDs can be matched onto…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Maarten G. A. Buffing , Markus Diehl , Tomas Kasemets

We investigate the twist-$3$ transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the pion with basis light-front quantization. The twist-3 TMDs are not independent and can be decomposed into twist-$2$ and genuine twist-$3$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zhimin Zhu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary , BLFQ Collaboration

We revisit the calculation of the evolution equations for four unpolarized twist-3 transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs) at $\mathcal {O}(\alpha_s)$. Unlike the existing calculations in the literature,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Xue-Tao Liu , Ping-An Liu , Yu-Lu Liu , An-Ping Chen

This study is part of a project to investigate the transverse momentum dependence in parton distribution and fragmentation functions, analyzing (semi-)inclusive high-energy processes within a proper QCD framework. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-26 Alessandro Bacchetta , Miguel G. Echevarria , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

Often the factorization of differential cross sections results in the definition of fundamental hadronic functions/distributions which have a double-scale evolution, as provided by a pair of coupled equations. Typically, the two scales are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We discuss the recently proposed scheme for the evolution of Transverse Momentum Distributions using the so-called "D^R". We discuss a new method to separate perturbative and non-perturbative effects in the analysis of the evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-08 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

I report on our investigations into the impact of (un)polarized transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs or TMDs) for gluons at hadron colliders, especially at A Fixed Target Experiment at the LHC (AFTER@LHC).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Andrea Signori

This article gives an introduction to transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions and their use in shower Monte Carlo event generators for high-energy hadron collisions, and describes recent progress in the treatment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-30 F. Hautmann , M. Hentschinski , H. Jung

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 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 variational formulation of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory similar to the constrained-search variational formulation of ground-state density-function theory. The formulation is applied to justify the time-dependent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-26 Jérôme Daligault

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

We present the first determination of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) photon densities with the Parton Branching method. The photon distribution is generated perturbatively without intrinsic photon component. The input parameters for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 H. Jung , S. Taheri Monfared , T. Wening

At hadron colliders, the differential cross section for $W$ production can be factorized and it is sensitive transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMD) for low boson transverse momentum. While, often, the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Sergio Leal-Gomez , Ignazio Scimemi