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Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs), in short referred to as TMDs, also take into account the transverse momentum (pT) of the partons. Just as the pT-integrated analogues we want to link them to quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 M. G. A. Buffing , P. J. Mulders , A. Mukherjee

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs), TMDs for short, are defined as the Fourier transform of matrix elements of nonlocal combinations of quark and gluon fields. The nonlocality is bridged by gauge links,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 D. Boer , M. G. A. Buffing , P. J. Mulders

We consider the problems of gauge invariance, path-dependence and treatment of overlapping UV/rapidity divergences peculiar to the transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs). For different formulations of the TMDs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-27 I. O. Cherednikov

Transverse parton momentum dependent distribution functions (TMDs) of the nucleon are studied in a covariant model, which describes the intrinsic motion of partons in terms of a covariant momentum distribution. The consistency of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 A. V. Efremov , P. Schweitzer , O. V. Teryaev , P. Zavada

Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) provide a unique probe of the three-dimensional spin structure of hadrons. We construct spin-dependent quasi-TMDPDFs that are amenable to lattice QCD calculations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-02 Markus A. Ebert , Stella T. Schindler , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

The UV divergences associated with transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDF) are calculated together with the ensuing one-loop anomalous dimensions in the light-cone gauge. Time-reversal-odd effects in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 I. O. Cherednikov , N. G. Stefanis

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions, commonly referred to as transverse momentum distributions (TMDs). TMDs describe the distribution of…

Azimuthal asymmetries in high-energy processes, most pronounced showing up in combination with single or double (transverse) spin asymmetries, can be understood with the help of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 M. G. A. Buffing , P. J. Mulders

There are three types of fragmentation functions (FFs) which are used to describe the twist-3 cross sections of the hard semi-inclusive processes under QCD collinear factorization, and they are called intrinsic, kinematical, and dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-01 Qin-Tao Song

We present the first next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) calculation of the twist-2 matching coefficients for transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark transversity parton distribution and fragmentation functions in QCD. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Yu Jiao Zhu

In this work, we have calculated the photon leading-twist T-even transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs). For these calculations, we have treated photon as a state of quark anti-quark pair and represent the TMDs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Satyajit Puhan , Narinder Kumar , Harleen Dahiya

We compute the contribution of twist-2 and twist-3 parton distribution functions to the small-$b$ expansion for transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions at all powers of $b$. The computation is done by the twist-decomposition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-06 Valentin Moos , Alexey Vladimirov

We have dealt with the twist-4 T-even transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions (TMDs) for the case of proton in the light-front quark-diquark model (LFQDM). By decoding the unintegrated quark-quark correlator for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-02 Shubham Sharma , Harleen Dahiya

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 parton distribution/fragmentation functions (TMDs) are essential in the factorization of a number of processes like Drell-Yan scattering, vector boson production, semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-05 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We present a summary of a recent workshop held at Duke University on Partonic Transverse Momentum in Hadrons: Quark Spin-Orbit Correlations and Quark-Gluon Interactions. The transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions…

In the TMD approach, the average transverse momentum of the unpolarised TMD PDFs and FFs is crucial not only to reproduce unpolarised cross sections and hadron multiplicities, but also for the understanding of azimuthal and spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-14 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia , A. Prokudin

We present the first simultaneous global QCD analysis of unpolarized transverse momentum dependent (TMD) and collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton. Our study incorporates data from deep-inelastic scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-16 P. C. Barry , A. Prokudin , T. Anderson , C. Cocuzza , L. Gamberg , W. Melnitchouk , E. Moffat , D. Pitonyak , J. -W. Qiu , N. Sato , A. Vladimirov , R. M. Whitehill

We investigate the twist-$3$ transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the pion with basis light-front quantization. The twist-3 TMDs are not independent and can be decomposed into twist-$2$ and genuine twist-$3$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zhimin Zhu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary , BLFQ Collaboration

The back-to-back $J/\psi$ and $\pi$ associated production at $e^+ e^-$ colliders is proposed to detect the gluon transverse momentum dependent(TMD) fragmentation functions. TMD factorization is assumed for this process. With spinless pion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Guang-Peng Zhang