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The forward-backward asymmetry of the Drell-Yan process in dilepton decays at high invariant masses can be used to probe the parton distribution functions at large x. The behavior of three modern PDF sets (CT18NNLO, MSHT20, and NNPDF4.0)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Yao Fu , Raymond Brock , Daniel Hayden , Chien-Peng Yuan

We study next-to-leading-power (NLP) threshold corrections in colour-singlet production processes, with particular emphasis on Drell-Yan (DY) and single-Higgs production. We assess the quality of the partonic and hadronic threshold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Melissa van Beekveld , Eric Laenen , Jort Sinninghe Damsté , Leonardo Vernazza

Splitting functions are universal functions describing the collinear dynamics of gauge theories, and as such are crucial ingredients for a wide variety of calculations in perturbative QCD. We present analytic results for the triple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Evan Craft , Mark Gonzalez , Kyle Lee , Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult

In this paper we firstly demonstrate step by step that the factorization hypothesis is valid at the next-to-leading order (NLO) for the exclusive process $\rho \gamma^{\star} \to \rho$ by employing the collinear factorization approach, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-10 Ya-lan Zhang , Shan Cheng , Jun Hua , Zhen-jun Xiao

We present the full next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) coefficient functions for the polarized cross section $d\Delta \sigma/dQ$ for the Drell-Yan process $p + p\to l^+l^- + 'X'$. Here $'X'$ denotes any inclusive hadronic state and $Q$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

In this letter, we relate the factorization for $e^+e^- \to h_1 h_2 X$ to the factorization for energy-energy correlators in the collinear limit. This enables us to give a nonperturbative proof of factorization for the energy correlators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-19 Kyle Lee , Iain Stewart

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

Factorization is possible due to the universal behavior of Yang-Mills theories in soft and collinear limits. Here, we take a small step towards a more transparent understanding of these limits by proving a form of perturbative factorization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-25 Ilya Feige , Matthew D. Schwartz

It is well known that cross-sections in perturbative QCD receive large corrections from soft and collinear radiation, whose properties must be resummed to all orders in the coupling. Whether or not the universal properties of this radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Melissa van Beekveld , Wim Beenakker , Eric Laenen , Chris D. White

Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) is a key tool for exploring the three-dimensional structure of the nucleon through Transverse Momentum Dependent parton distributions and fragmentation functions. While leading-power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ian Balitsky , Alexei Prokudin

We discuss Drell-Yan production of dileptons at high energies in forward rapidity region in a hybrid high-energy approach. This approach uses unintegrated gluon distributions in one proton and collinear quark/antiquark distributions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-04 Antoni Szczurek , Wolfgang Schaefer

The relation between the pion's quark distribution function, $q(x)$, its light-front wave function, and the elastic charge form factor, $F(\Delta^2)$ is explored. The square of the leading-twist pion wave function at a special probe scale,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-07 Mary Alberg , Gerald A. Miller

We consider electroweak radiative corrections to hard inclusive processes at the TeV scale, and we investigate how collinear logarithms factorize in a spontaneously broken gauge theory, similarly to the DGLAP analysis in QCD. Due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ciafaloni , P. Ciafaloni , D. Comelli

Single inclusive hadron production at forward rapidity in high energy p+A collisions is an important probe of the high gluon density regime of QCD and the associated small-$x$ formalism. We revisit an earlier one-loop calculation to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

The collinear factorization theorem, combined with finite-order calculations in perturbative QCD, provides a powerful framework to obtain predictions for many collider observables. However, for observables which involve multiple energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-03 Aleksandra Lelek

We consider the problem of soft gluon resummation for gauge theory amplitudes and cross sections, at next-to-eikonal order, using a Feynman diagram approach. At the amplitude level, we prove exponentiation for the set of factorizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Eric Laenen , Lorenzo Magnea , Gerben Stavenga , Chris D. White

We study the Drell-Yan process at the Large Hadron Collider in presence of the noncommutative extension of standard model. Using the Seiberg-Witten map, we calculate the production cross-section to the first order in the noncommutative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-15 J Selvaganapathy , Prasanta Kumar Das , Partha Konar

We study the polarized Drell-Yan processes from the collision of two spin-1/2 hadrons at order 1/Q based on the framework of transverse momentum dependent factorization.We give the complete twist-three results of total sixteen independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhun Lu , Ivan Schmidt

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

The theoretical description of Drell-Yan (DY) transverse momentum spectra over wide kinematic regions in energy, mass and transverse momentum requires not only fixed-order perturbative QCD calculations but also soft-gluon QCD resummations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-04 Aleksandra Lelek