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We introduce transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for gluons with definite rank. The rank refers to the azimuthal dependence corresponding to the tensorial structure in transverse momenta multiplying universal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-28 M. G. A. Buffing , A. Mukherjee , P. J. Mulders

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 propose a new definition of a transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) wave function with simpler soft subtraction for $k_T$ factorization of hard exclusive processes. The un-subtracted wave function involves two pieces of non-light-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Hsiang-nan Li , Yu-Ming Wang

We present the first next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) calculation of the twist-2 matching coefficients for transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark transversity parton distribution and fragmentation functions in QCD. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Yu Jiao Zhu

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

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution and fragmentation functions are described as Fourier transforms of matrix elementscontaining nonlocal combinations of quark and gluon fields. These matrix elements also contain a gauge link…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 P. J. Mulders , M. G. A. Buffing , A. Mukherjee

We study the transverse momentum spectrum of hadrons in jets. By measuring the transverse momentum with respect to a judiciously chosen axis, we find that this observable is insensitive to (the recoil of) soft radiation. Furthermore, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-11 Duff Neill , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter J. Waalewijn

In this work, we perform a lattice QCD study of the intrinsic, rapidity-independent soft function within the framework of large momentum effective theory. The computation is carried out using a gauge ensemble of $N_f=2+1+1$ clover-improved…

We compute the unpolarized quark and gluon transverse-momentum dependent fragmentation functions (TMDFFs) at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative QCD. The calculation is based on a relation between the TMDFF and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Markus A. Ebert , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita

In large-momentum effective theory (LaMET), the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) light-front wave functions and soft functions can be extracted from the simulation of a four-quark form factor and equal-time correlation functions. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Zhi-Fu Deng , Wei Wang , Jun Zeng

Transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions of unpolarized quarks inside unpolarized protons are extracted, for the first time, through a simultaneous analysis of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-26 Cristian Pisano , Alessandro Bacchetta , Filippo Delcarro , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

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

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs), TMDs for short, are defined as the Fourier transform of matrix elements of nonlocal combinations of quark and gluon fields. The nonlocality is bridged by gauge links,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 D. Boer , M. G. A. Buffing , P. J. Mulders

We compute inclusive dihadron cross-section in Deep Inelastic Scattering at next-to-leading order (NLO) and small $x$ in the Color Glass Condensate. We focus on the kinematic limit where the hadrons are produced at forward rapidities (in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Paul Caucal , Farid Salazar

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

The partons' transverse momentum can be explored with QCD lattice simulations by studying the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (qTMDPDFs), which are factorized in terms of physical TMDPDFs and soft factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Óscar del Río , Alexey Vladimirov

We study transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) gluon distributions and factorization theorems for the gluon-initiated semi-inclusive processes at hadron colliders. Gauge-invariant TMD gluon distributions are defined, and their relations to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Ping Ma , Feng Yuan

We calculate in this paper the perturbative gluon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) and fragmentation functions (TMDFFs) using the exponential regulator for rapidity divergences. We obtain results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Ming-Xing Luo , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu , Yu Jiao Zhu

We systematically study the large-$q_T$ (or small-$b$) matching of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions to the twist-2 integrated parton distributions. Performing operator product expansion for a generic TMD operator at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-15 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey A. Vladimirov

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