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The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function for a generic hadroproduction process involving massive colored particles is analytically calculated at the one-loop level, extended to higher orders in the dimensional regulator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 Hua-Sheng Shao , Guoxing Wang

We generalise the factorization of abelian gauge theory amplitudes to next-to-leading power (NLP) in a soft scale expansion, following a recent generalisation for Yukawa theory. From an all-order power counting analysis of leading and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-01 E. Laenen , J. Sinninghe Damsté , L. Vernazza , W. Waalewijn , L. Zoppi

To describe the transverse momentum spectrum of heavy color-singlet production, the joint resummation of threshold and transverse momentum logarithms is investigated. We obtain factorization theorems for various kinematic regimes valid to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 Gillian Lustermans , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lisa Zeune

The soft emission factor is a central ingredient in the factorization of generic $n$-particle gauge theory amplitudes with one soft gluon in the external state. We present the complete two-loop soft factor, capturing the leading power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Kai Yan , Hua Xing Zhu

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

We use the known soft and collinear limits of tree- and one-loop scattering amplitudes -- computed over a decade ago -- to explicitly construct a subtraction scheme for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) computations. Our approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Radja Boughezal , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

We derive a general expression for the resummation of rapidity distributions for processes with a colorless final state, such as Drell-Yan or Higgs production, in the limit in which the center-of-mass energy goes on threshold, but with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Lorenzo De Ros , Stefano Forte , Giovanni Ridolfi , Davide Maria Tagliabue

The feasibility of measuring chiral-odd parton distribution functions in polarized Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive experiments has renewed theoretical interest in their study. Not long ago we presented an analysis of the transversity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio Scopetta , Vicente Vento

Applying the light-cone sum rules (LCSR) approach, the next-to-leading-order (NLO) corrections to $B \to A$ form factors are calculated with the twist-two and twist-three $B$ meson light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) at leading power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Fang-Zhou Di , Yu-Hao Liu

We consider the color gauge invariance of a factorized description of the Drell-Yan process cross section. In particular, we focus on the next-to-leading twist contributions for polarized scattering and on the cross section differential in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Boer , P. J. Mulders

In this proceeding we consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colourless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. At small transverse momentum the logarithmically-enhanced contributions can be organized to all perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-21 Leandro Cieri

We present the general form of a universal soft-collinear distribution operator to compute the soft-virtual cross-section to next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^4$LO) in QCD for a process with any number of final state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-08 Taushif Ahmed , Ajjath A. H. , Goutam Das , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran , Surabhi Tiwari

We perform a complete calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) electroweak fermionic corrections to fermion-pair production processes, where "fermionic" refers to contributions with closed fermion loops. We did this via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Ayres Freitas , E. Jackson Wallace

We study the transverse momentum dependent factorization for single spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering processes at one-loop order. The next-to-leading order hard factors are calculated in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 Zhong-Bo Kang , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

We continue the study of power corrections for $N$-jettiness subtractions by analytically computing the complete next-to-leading power corrections at $\cal{O}(\alpha_s)$ for color-singlet production. This includes all nonlogarithmic terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-14 Markus A. Ebert , Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We define a Focus Point (FP) Asymmetry, $A_{\rm FP}$, obtained by integrating the normalised transverse momentum distribution of either lepton produced in the Drell-Yan (DY) process below and above a point where a variety of popular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-09 Elena Accomando , Juri Fiaschi , Stefano Moretti , Claire H. Shepherd-Themistocleous

We extract the pion transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution by fitting the pion-induced Drell-Yan process within the framework of TMD factorization. The analysis is done at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexey Vladimirov

We present results for the $Z$-boson and $W$-boson transverse momentum ($p_T$) distributions for large $p_T$ at LHC and Tevatron energies. We calculate complete next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections as well as soft-gluon corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Richard J. Gonsalves

We perform a threshold resummation calculation for the associated production of gluinos and gauginos at the LHC to the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Analytical results are presented for the process-dependent soft anomalous dimension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-24 B. Fuks , M. Klasen , M. Rothering

We calculate the three-loop soft function for the production of an electroweak boson (Higgs, $\gamma$, $W^\pm$, $Z$) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider. It is the first time a soft function for a three-parton process is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-23 Ze Long Liu , Maximilian Stahlhofen