English
Related papers

Related papers: Renormalization and Matching for the Collins-Soper…

200 papers

We consider the definition of a transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) and its evolution properties given a factorization theorem of Drell- Yan lepton pair production with a non-vanishing transverse momentum. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

Transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions and wave functions (TMDPDFs/TMDWFs) can be extracted from lattice calculations of appropriate Euclidean matrix elements of staple-shaped Wilson line operators. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-25 Yao Ji , Jian-Hui Zhang , Shuai Zhao , Ruilin Zhu

We present an extraction of unpolarized quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs) from Drell-Yan data within a Bayesian inference framework, incorporating artificial intelligence at multiple stages of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Zhong-Bo Kang , Luke Sellers , Congyue Zhang , Curtis Zhou

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative objects defined by nonlocal light-cone correlations. They cannot be computed directly from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Using a standard lattice QCD approach, it is possible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici , Barbara Pasquini , Xiaonu Xiong

This work applies lattice QCD to compute quark momentum distributions in the nucleon. We explore a novel approach based on non-local operators in order to analyze transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions, which encode…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-07-15 Bernhard U. Musch

We present a lattice QCD calculation of transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of protons using staple-shaped Wilson lines. For time-reversal odd observables, we calculate the generalized Sivers and Boer-Mulders…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-22 B. Yoon , T. Bhattacharya , M. Engelhardt , J. Green , R. Gupta , P. Hägler , B. Musch , J. Negele , A. Pochinsky , S. Syritsyn

We provide the proper definition of all the leading-twist (un)polarized gluon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), by considering the Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution in hadron-hadron collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-10 Miguel G. Echevarria , Tomas Kasemets , Piet J. Mulders , Cristian Pisano

The hadron-energy evolution (Collins and Soper) equation for all the leading-twist transverse-momentum and spin dependent parton distributions is derived in the impact parameter space. Based on the result, we present resummation formulas…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ahmad Idilbi , Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Ping Ma , Feng Yuan

We employ {PhysMaster}, an autonomous agentic AI system integrating theoretical reasoning, numerical computation, and exploitation strategies towards ultra-long horizon automation, to tackle long-standing challenges in non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-25 Jin-Xin Tan , Ting-Jia Miao , Mu-Hua Zhang , Xiang-He Pang , Ze-Xi Liu , Lin-Feng Zhang , Si-Heng Chen , Wei Wang

We present a detailed study of the helicity-dependent and helicity-independent collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon, using the quasi-PDF approach. The lattice QCD computation is performed employing twisted mass…

I review lattice-QCD calculations of the electromagnetic and generalized form factors (GFFs), which determine the transverse structure of the nucleon, and briefly comment on recent calculations related to transverse-momentum dependent…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 Harvey B. Meyer

The formalism for uniform description of Drell-Yan transverse-momentum spectrum is presented in a framework of High-Energy Factorization, which smoothly interpolates between Collins-Soper-Sterman formalism at $|{\bf q}_T|\ll Q$ and usual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Maxim A. Nefedov , Vladimir A. Saleev

Lattice QCD calculations of transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) in nucleons are presented, based on the evaluation of nucleon matrix elements of quark bilocal operators with a staple-shaped gauge connection.…

The transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs), which are defined by gauge-invariant 3D parton correlators with staple-shaped lightlike Wilson lines, can be calculated from quark and gluon correlators fixed in the Coulomb gauge on a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Yong Zhao

We investigate the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) in the quasi-parton-distribution framework. The long standing hurdle of the so-called pinch pole singularity from the space-like gauge links in the TMD definitions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-12 Xiangdong Ji , Lu-Chang Jin , Feng Yuan , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We propose a modified definition for a quasi-parton distribution function (QPDF) with an equal-time correlator in the large momentum limit, whose two pieces of space-like Wilson links are oriented in orthogonal directions. It is explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Hsiang-nan Li

We compute the quark and gluon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative QCD. Our calculation is based on an expansion of the differential Higgs boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Markus A. Ebert , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita

The Boer-Mulders transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution (TMD) characterizes polarized quark transverse momentum in an unpolarized hadron. Techniques previously developed for lattice calculations of nucleon TMDs are applied to the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-01 M. Engelhardt , B. Musch , P. Hägler , J. Negele , A. Schäfer

We use the Bessel-inspired behavior of parton densities at small Bjorken $x$ values, obtained in the case of the flat initial conditions for DGLAP evolution equations in the double scaling QCD approximation (DAS), to evaluate the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 A. V. Kotikov , A. V. Lipatov , B. G. Shaikhatdenov , P. Zhang

We develop a novel strategy for accessing the transversity parton distribution function (PDF) of the nucleon within collinear factorization using near-side energy-energy correlators in the dihadron fragmentation framework. We show how this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Zhong-Bo Kang , Andreas Metz , Daniel Pitonyak , Congyue Zhang