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We present a calculation of the perturbative quark-to-quark transverse parton distribution function at next-to-next-to-leading order based on a gauge invariant operator definition. We demonstrate for the first time that such a definition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Thomas Gehrmann , Thomas Lübbert , Li Lin Yang

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

Soft-gluon resolution scales characterize parton branching Monte Carlo implementations of the evolution equations for parton distribution functions in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We examine scenarios with dynamical, i.e., branching-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 F. Hautmann , L. Keersmaekers , A. Lelek , S. Sadeghi Barzani , S. Taheri Monfared

In this work, we investigate the constituent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the kaon and heavy pseudoscalar mesons within the light-cone quark model. Starting from the initial scale quark and antiquark PDFs, obtained by evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Satyajit Puhan

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 develop a framework for a systematic resummation of the transverse momentum distribution of top-quark pairs produced at hadron colliders based on effective field theory. Compared to Drell-Yan and Higgs production, a novel soft function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-14 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Hai Tao Li , Ding Yu Shao , Li Lin Yang

We calculate the unpolarized transverse momentum dependent fragmentation function (TMDFF) at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO), evaluating separately TMD soft factor and TMD collinear correlator. For the first time the cancellation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We calculate higher-order soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $Z$ boson ($t{\bar t}Z$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We find that these corrections are numerically dominant and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

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

We study the QCD evolution for the twist-three quark-gluon correlation functions associated with the transverse momentum odd quark distributions. Different from that for the leading twist quark distributions, these evolution equations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Jian Zhou , Feng Yuan , Zuo-Tang Liang

We study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions in the newly proposed quasi-parton distribution function framework in Euclidean space. A soft factor subtraction is found to be essential to make the TMDs calculable on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Xiangdong Ji , Peng Sun , Xiaonu Xiong , Feng Yuan

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of a heavy-quark pair in hadronic collisions. We present the computation of the soft-parton contributions at low transverse momentum of the heavy-quark pair up to second order in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Stefano Catani , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Javier Mazzitelli

Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) parton distributions obtained from the Parton Branching (PB) method are combined with next-to-leading-order (NLO) calculations of Drell-Yan (DY) production. We apply the MCatNLO method for the hard…

We present the perturbative calculation of the leading-twist gluon transverse momentum dependent distribution functions (TMDPDFs) at one-loop level within large-momentum effective theory. By employing the basis of circular polarizations, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Xiupeng Xie , Zhun Lu

We present an extraction of unpolarised Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Parton Distribution Functions based on Drell-Yan production data from different experiments, including those at the LHC, and spanning a wide kinematic range. We deal with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Alessandro Bacchetta , Valerio Bertone , Chiara Bissolotti , Giuseppe Bozzi , Filippo Delcarro , Fulvio Piacenza , Marco Radici

Three-body decay functions in space-like parton branches are implemented to evaluate transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions in the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) order of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-08 Hidekazu Tanaka

We provide a concise overview on transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions, their application to topical issues in high-energy physics phenomenology, and their theoretical connections with QCD resummation, evolution…

The transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation functions (TMD FFs) of heavy (bottom and charm) quarks, which we recently introduced, are universal building blocks that enter predictions for a large number of observables involving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Rebecca von Kuk , Johannes K. L. Michel , Zhiquan Sun

Using the model of Nambu and Jona-Lasinio to provide a microscopic description of both the structure of the nucleon and of the quark to hadron elementary fragmentation functions, we investigate the transverse momentum dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-20 Hrayr H. Matevosyan , Wolfgang Bentz , Ian C. Cloët , Anthony W. Thomas

In this work we consider how a parton distribution function, with an explicit transverse momentum dependence can be properly defined in a regularization-scheme independent manner. We argue that by considering a factorized form of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi