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The unpolarized, helicity and transversity distributions of quarks in the proton are calculated in the overlap representation of light-cone wavefunctions truncated to the lowest order Fock-space components with three valence quarks. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Pasquini , M. Pincetti , S. Boffi

The weak radiative corrections to the Drell-Yan process above the Z-peak have been studied. The compact asymptotic expression for the two heavy boson exchange - one of the significant contributions to the investigated process - has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. A. Zykunov

Single diffractive Drell-Yan reaction in hadron-hadron collisions is considered as an important source of information on the properties of soft QCD interactions. In particular, it provides an access to the dynamics of the QCD factorisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Roman Pasechnik , Boris Kopeliovich

High-order perturbative calculations for thermodynamic quantities in QCD are complicated by the physics of dynamical screening that affects the soft, long-wavelength modes of the system. Here, we provide details for the evaluation of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-17 Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Risto Paatelainen , Saga Säppi , Aleksi Vuorinen

We review on the calculation of the heavy-quark photo-production vector form factors, with the full dependence on the mass of the heavy-quark. The Feynman diagrams are evaluated within the dimensional regularization scheme and expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Bonciani

We provide a general method to effectively compute differential and cumulative event-shape distributions to $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s)$ precision for massive quarks produced primarily at an $e^+e^-$ collider. In particular, we show that at this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-17 Christopher Lepenik , Vicent Mateu

Using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, we develop the transverse-momentum-dependent factorization formalism for heavy flavor dijet production in polarized-proton-electron collisions. We consider heavy flavor mass corrections in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jared Reiten , Ding Yu Shao , John Terry

We thoroughly investigate both transverse momentum and threshold resummation effects on scalar-pseudoscalar pair production via quark-antiquark annihilation at the $13~ \text{TeV}$ Large Hadron Collider at QCD NLO+NLL accuracy. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 He-Yi Li , Ren-You Zhang , Yu Zhang , Wen-Gan Ma , Ming-Ming Long , Shu-Xiang Li

We calculate the differential Drell-Yan production cross section in proton-nucleus collisions by including both next-to-leading order perturbative effects and effects of the nuclear medium. We demonstrate that dilepton production in fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 R. B. Neufeld , I. Vitev , B. W. Zhang

We derive threshold resummation of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS), by building upon previous results by some of us for the resummation of the Drell-Yan process at fixed rapidity, which is related to SIDIS by crossing. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Stefano Forte , Giovanni Ridolfi , Francesco Ventola

The prediction of differential cross-sections in hadron-hadron scattering processes is typically performed in a scheme where the heavy-flavour quarks ($c, b, t$) are treated either as massless or massive partons. In this work, a method to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-03 R. Gauld

We present a precision calculation of the transverse-momentum and invariant-mass distributions for supersymmetric particle pair production at hadron colliders, focusing on Drell-Yan like slepton pair and slepton-sneutrino associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bozzi , B. Fuks , M. Klasen

We consider the factorization and resummation of soft and Coulomb gluons for pair-production processes of heavy coloured particles at hadron colliders, and discuss: the construction of a colour basis that diagonalizes the leading soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-27 M. Beneke , P. Falgari , C. Schwinn

The cross section for Drell-Yan pair production in the limit of small $x$-target is derived in the rest frame of the target hadron. Our calculation is based on the fundamental quantity $\sigma(\rho)$, the cross section for the scattering of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 S. J. Brodsky , A. Hebecker , E. Quack

All (un)polarized transverse momentum dependent functions (TMDs), both distribution and fragmentation functions, are defined with the same universal soft function, which cancels spurious rapidity divergences within an individual TMD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

Non-singlet ${\cal{O}}(\alpha_s^2)$ corrections from light quarks are calculated analytically for the massive quark-antiquark pair production rates through the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar currents for all energies above…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. H. Hoang , T. Teubner

We discuss the resummation of threshold logarithms for heavy quark and dijet cross sections in hadronic collisions. The resummed cross sections are presented at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in terms of anomalous dimension matrices…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We calculate the Compton and annihilation production of a soft static lepton pair in a quark-gluon plasma in the two-loop approximation. We work in the context of the effective perturbative expansion based on the resummation of hard thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Aurenche , Francois Gelis , Randy Kobes , Haitham Zaraket

It has been argued in arXiv:1112.6432 that the planar four-point integrand in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory is uniquely determined by dual conformal invariance together with the absence of a double pole in the integrand of the logarithm in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 John Golden , Marcus Spradlin

We develop threshold resummation for single-particle inclusive cross sections in hadron-hadron collisions to the level of next-to-next-to-leading logarithm, up to full matching with two-loop hard functions. We define and calculate all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Patriz Hinderer , Felix Ringer , George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang