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We study a transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization framework for the processes of di-jet and heavy meson pair production in deep-inelastic-scattering in an electron-proton collider, considering the measurement of the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Rafael F. del Castillo , Miguel G. Echevarria , Yiannis Makris , Ignazio Scimemi

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

Using soft collinear effective field theory, we derive the factorization theorem for the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent (quasi-TMD) operator. We check the factorization theorem at one-loop level and compute the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Alexey A. Vladimirov , Andreas Schäfer

The renormalization-group properties of gauge-invariant transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDF) in QCD are addressed. We perform an analysis of their leading-order anomalous dimensions, which are local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. O. Cherednikov , N. G. Stefanis

We consider the definition of unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions while staying on-the-light-cone. By imposing a requirement of identical treatment of two collinear sectors, our approach, compatible with…

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

We derive the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization for heavy quark pair production in deep inelastic scattering, where the total transverse momentum is much smaller than the invariant mass of the pair. The factorization is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Ruilin Zhu , Peng Sun , Feng Yuan

QCD factorization approach in the field-theoretic description of the semi-inclusive hadronic processes in the large Bjorken $x$ approximation implies extraction of the three-dimensional parton distribution functions as a convolution of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-24 I. O. Cherednikov

The one-loop correction to heavy quark pair back-to-back production in unpolarized semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering is given in this work in the framework of transverse momentum dependent(TMD) factorization. Both unpolarized and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Guang-Peng Zhang

In the framework of large-momentum effective theory at one-loop matching accuracy, we perform a lattice calculation of the Collins-Soper kernel which governs the rapidity evolution of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) distributions. We…

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

We show that the geometry of the Wilson lines, entering the operator definition of the transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions and that of the soft factor, follows from the kinematics of the underlying physical process in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-08 A. A. Vladimirov , N. G. Stefanis

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

In a high-energy scattering process with hadrons in the initial state, color is involved. Transverse momentum dependent distribution functions (TMDs) describe the quark and gluon distributions in these hadrons in momentum space with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 M. G. A. Buffing , A. Mukherjee , P. J. Mulders

We prove $k_T$ factorization theorem in perturbative QCD (PQCD) for exclusive processes by considering $\pi\gamma^*\to \gamma(\pi)$ and $B\to\gamma(\pi) l\bar\nu$. The relevant form factors are expressed as the convolution of hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Makiko Nagashima , Hsiang-nan Li

The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function for a generic hadroproduction process involving massive colored particles is analytically calculated at the one-loop level, extended to higher orders in the dimensional regulator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 Hua-Sheng Shao , Guoxing Wang

We study the factorization of soft and collinear singularities in dimensionally-regularized fixed-angle scattering amplitudes in massless gauge theories. Our factorization is based on replacing the hard massless partons by light-like Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-19 Einan Gardi , Lorenzo Magnea

We derive the factorization theorem for the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent (quasi-TMD) correlator, including kinematic power corrections to all orders. The resulting expression involves only twist-two TMD distributions and is frame…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Alejandro Bris Cuerpo , Arturo Arroyo-Castro , Alexey Vladimirov

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

The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function for non-relativistic heavy quark pair production at hadron colliders is analytically computed at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling expansion. We present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Hua-Sheng Shao , Guoxing Wang

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