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We employ relations between spacelike and timelike deep-inelastic processes in perturbative QCD to calculate the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the timelike quark-quark and gluon-gluon splitting functions for the…

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We investigate the inclusive and semi-inclusive productions of spin-3/2 hadrons, such as $\Omega$, in unpolarized $e^+ e^-$ annihilation. The general differential cross sections are expressed in terms of structure functions in accordance to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Jing Zhao , Zhe Zhang , Zuo-tang Liang , Tianbo Liu , Ya-jin Zhou

The fragmentation functions for $c$ or $\bar{b}$ quark to $B_c$ or $B_c^*$ meson are derived up to QCD next-to-leading order (NLO). They are further computed numerically and presented in figures precisely. In order to reach a higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-01 Xu-Chang Zheng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Tai-Fu Feng , Xing-Gang Wu

We present a fit of the transverse momentum spectrum for Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering data, based on transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization at N$^4$LL accuracy. Our analysis shows good agreement with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-06 Valentin Moos , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov , Pia Zurita

The next-to-leading order hard function for quarkonium electroproduction is calculated within the framework of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) factorization in the low-transverse-momentum regime. The structure of the TMD shape function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Miguel G. Echevarria , Raj Kishore , Samuel F. Romera

In this paper, we investigate the heavy quark (HQ) mass effects on the transverse momentum dependent fragmentation function (TMDFF). We first calculate the one-loop TMDFF initiated by a heavy quark. We then investigate the HQ TMDFF in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-29 Lin Dai , Chul Kim , Adam K. Leibovich

We study the Sivers asymmetry in semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering. We concentrate on the contribution from the photon-gluon fusion channel at ${\cal O}(\alpha_{em}^2 \alpha_s)$, where three-gluon correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Ling-Yun Dai , Zhong-Bo Kang , Alexei Prokudin , Ivan Vitev

Gluon transverse-momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) are very important for revealing the internal structure of the proton. They correspond to a variety of experiments and are among the major tasks of the future electron-ion colliders.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Hongyao Yu , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We report a complete computation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) helicity and transversity Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) splitting functions, in both space-like and time-like kinematics. These results are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Yu Jiao Zhu

We calculate the cross section for the inclusive production of single hadrons with finite transverse momenta in deep-inelastic scattering at next-to-leading order (NLO), i.e. through O(alpha_s^2), in the parton model of QCD endowed with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-05 B. A. Kniehl , G. Kramer , M. Maniatis

We present MAPFF1.0_Lambda, the first global analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD of the collinear unpolarised fragmentation functions of Lambda hyperons. The fit is based on data from single-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Valerio Bertone , Alessia Bongallino , Amedeo Chiefa , Miguel G. Echevarria , Gunar Schnell

We present a first lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized nucleon's isovector transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), which are essential to predict observables of multi-scale, semi-inclusive processes in…

I present a preliminary determination of the Fragmentation Functions (FFs) of unidentified charged hadrons at next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamics. The analysis is based on hadron production cross section data in single-inclusive…

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We present the first extraction of the unpolarised gluon transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton distribution from Higgs-boson production data at the LHC within the framework of TMD factorisation. The analysis is based on the currently…

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The next-to-leading order (NLO) ($\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$) corrections for gluon fragmentation functions to a heavy quark-antiquark pair in ${^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}P_{J}^{[1,8]}}$ states are calculated within the NRQCD factorization. We use…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Peng Zhang , Ce Meng , Yan-Qing Ma , Kuang-Ta Chao

We review the status of the calculation of the time-like splitting functions for the evolution of fragmentation functions to the next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. By employing relations between space-like and time-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-03 S. Moch , A. Vogt

We study the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections to the transverse momentum-weighted Sivers asymmetry in semi-inclusive hadron production in lepton-proton deep inelastic scattering. The corresponding differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-21 Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

To identify some way to measure the quark transversity, this thesis analyzes one-particle and two-particle inclusive deep inelastic scattering, where one and two of the outgoing hadrons are detected in coincidence with the electron. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 A. Bacchetta

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 study the transverse-momentum spectrum of quarkonium production from single light-parton fragmentation mechanism. In the case of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, we observe that there are two possible initiating processes,…

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