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We consider the structure of divergences in Drell-Yan process with small transverse momentum. The factorization proof is not trivial because various kinds of divergences are intertwined in the collinear and soft parts at high orders. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Junegone Chay , Chul Kim

We show that transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), important non-perturbative quantities for describing the properties of hadrons in high-energy scattering processes such as Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu , Yu-Sheng Liu

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 discuss the structure of rapidity divergences that are presented in the soft factors of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorems. To provide the discussion on the most general level we consider soft factors for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-29 Alexey Vladimirov

We apply the joint threshold and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization theorem to introduce new threshold-TMD distribution functions, including threshold-TMD parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Zhong-Bo Kang , Kajal Samanta , Ding Yu Shao , Yang-Li Zeng

We derive a factorization theorem for Drell-Yan process at low q_T using effective field theory methods. In this theorem all the obtained quantities are gauge invariant and the special role of the soft function--and its subtraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

We evaluate the pion and kaon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) in the instanton liquid model (ILM), a model of the QCD vacuum at low resolution. The relevant TMDs are factored into a constituent quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Wei-Yang Liu , Ismail Zahed

We study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions in the newly proposed quasi-parton distribution function framework in Euclidean space. A soft factor subtraction is found to be essential to make the TMDs calculable on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Xiangdong Ji , Peng Sun , Xiaonu Xiong , Feng Yuan

At small transverse momentum $q_T$, transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) arise as genuinely nonperturbative objects that describe Drell-Yan like processes in hadron collisions as well as semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-21 Markus A. Ebert , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We present the first simultaneous global QCD analysis of unpolarized transverse momentum dependent (TMD) and collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Our study incorporates data from deep-inelastic scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-16 P. C. Barry , A. Prokudin , T. Anderson , C. Cocuzza , L. Gamberg , W. Melnitchouk , E. Moffat , D. Pitonyak , J. -W. Qiu , N. Sato , A. Vladimirov , R. M. Whitehill

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

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

I review the basics of the collinear factorization theorem applied primarily to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) involving forward parton distributions (PDFs) and the extensions of this theorem for exclusive processes probing non-forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Lech Szymanowski

We present the extraction of unpolarized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions functions (TMDPDFs) and Collins-Soper kernel from the fit of Drell-Yan and weak-vector boson production data. The TMDPDF are parameterized, as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 Valentin Moos , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov , Pia Zurita

We show at NNLO that the soft factors for double parton scattering (DPS) for both integrated and unintegrated kinematics, can be presented entirely in the terms of the soft factor for single Drell-Yan process, i.e. the transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexey Vladimirov

The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function is a key ingredient in QCD factorization of Drell-Yan and other processes with relatively small transverse momentum. We present a lattice QCD study of this function at moderately large…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-11 Qi-An Zhang , Jun Hua , Yikai Huo , Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu , Yu-Sheng Liu , Maximilian Schlemmer , Andreas Schäfer , Peng Sun , Wei Wang , Yi-Bo Yang

Collinear parton distribution functions (cPDFs) and transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) are essential for calculating cross sections in high-energy physics, particularly within collinear and kt-factorization frameworks.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 R. Kord Valeshabadi , S. Rezaie

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

To calculate the transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) from lattice QCD, an important goal yet to be realized, it is crucial to establish a viable non-perturbative renormalization approach for linear…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-31 Kuan Zhang , Xiangdong Ji , Yi-Bo Yang , Fei Yao , Jian-Hui Zhang

Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs) also take into account the transverse momentum ($p_T$) of the partons. The $p_T$-integrated analogues can be linked directly to quark and gluon matrix elements using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 P. J. Mulders , M. G. A. Buffing
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