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The spin correlation of final-state hadrons provides a novel platform to explore the hadronization mechanism of polarized partons in unpolarized high-energy collisions. In this work, we investigate the helicity correlation of two hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Fei Huang , Tianbo Liu , Yu-Kun Song , Shu-Yi Wei

It has by now been established that standard QCD factorization using transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions fails in hadro-production of nearly back-to-back hadrons with high transverse momentum. The essential problem…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-19 Ted C. Rogers , Piet J. Mulders

Proof of transverse-momentum-dependent(TMD) factorization for hadron-hadron collision is given in this paper. We focus on processes without detected soft final hadrons or detected final hadrons that are collinear to initial hadrons. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-25 Gao-Liang Zhou

This study is part of a project to investigate the transverse momentum dependence in parton distribution and fragmentation functions, analyzing (semi-)inclusive high-energy processes within a proper QCD framework. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-26 Alessandro Bacchetta , Miguel G. Echevarria , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

We investigate the transverse polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in the processes $e^+e^-\to\Lambda^\uparrow \pi^\pm X$ and $e^+e^-\to\Lambda^\uparrow K^\pm X$ within the framework of the transverse momentum dependent~(TMD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-26 Hui Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Yongliang Yang , Zhun Lu

We report on the extraction of dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF) from the semiinclusive production of two hadron pairs in back-to-back jets in e+e- annihilation. A nonzero asymmetry in the correlation of azimuthal orientations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-11 A. Courtoy , Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici

The unpolarised transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions are extracted from HERMES and COMPASS experimental measurements of SIDIS multiplicities for charged hadron production. The data are grouped into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , J. O. Gonzalez H. , S. Melis , A. Prokudin

We derive the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization for heavy quark pair production in deep inelastic scattering, where the total transverse momentum is much smaller than the invariant mass of the pair. The factorization is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Ruilin Zhu , Peng Sun , Feng Yuan

We present a new proposal to study the helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF), which describe the correlations of the longitudinal polarization of a fragmenting quark with the transverse momenta of the produced hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-12 Hrayr H. Matevosyan , Aram Kotzinian , Anthony W. Thomas

We study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) evolution of the Collins azimuthal asymmetries in $e^+e^-$ annihilations and semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) processes. All the relevant coefficients are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Zhong-Bo Kang , Alexei Prokudin , Peng Sun , Feng Yuan

Hadron production at low transverse momenta in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering can be described by transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization. This formalism has also been widely used to study the Drell-Yan process and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-01 Zhong-Bo Kang , Alexei Prokudin , Nobuo Sato , John Terry

We calculate the transverse momentum dependence in the production of two back-to-back hadrons in electron-positron annihilations at the medium/large energy scales of BES-III and BELLE experiments. We use the parameters of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Alessandro Bacchetta , Miguel G. Echevarria , Piet J. G. Mulders , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

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

The new formalism for description of (un)polarized semi-inclusive DIS at moderate energies is developed. Hadron production is modeled as a product of distribution functions and hadronization functions (HFs) weighted by the hard scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Aram Kotzinian

We initiate the study of transverse momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation functions for heavy quarks, demonstrate their factorization in terms of novel nonperturbative matrix elements in heavy-quark effective theory (HQET), and prove new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-06 Rebecca von Kuk , Johannes K. L. Michel , Zhiquan Sun

We revisit the "`hybrid formalism"' for particle production used recently to study saturation effects in single hadron multiplicities at forward rapidities at RHIC and LHC. We point out that at leading twist there is an extra contribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 T. Altinoluk , A. Kovner

We combine soft and collinear matrix elements to define transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) for gluons, free from rapidity divergences. We establish a factorization theorem at next-to-leading order for the Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-12 Tomas Kasemets

We examine the QCD evolution of the helicity and transversity parton distribution functions when including also their dependence on transverse momentum. Using an appropriate definition of these polarized transverse momentum distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Alessandro Bacchetta , Alexei Prokudin

In the field theoretical description of hadronic scattering processes, single transverse-spin asymmetries arise due to gluon initial and final state interactions. These interactions lead to process dependent Wilson lines in the operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Bomhof , P. J. Mulders

We extend the analysis of two-hadron fragmentation functions to the subleading twist, discussing also the issue of color gauge invariance. Our results can be used anywhere two unpolarized hadrons are semi-inclusively produced in the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici