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We present the framework for obtaining precise predictions for the transverse momentum of hadrons with respect to the thrust axis in $e^+e^-$ collisions. This will enable a precise extraction of transverse momentum dependent (TMD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-17 Yiannis Makris , Felix Ringer , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We propose an observable $q_*$ sensitive to transverse momentum dependence (TMD) in $e N \to e h X$, with $q_*/E_N$ defined purely by lab-frame angles. In 3D measurements of confinement and hadronization this resolves the crippling issue of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Anjie Gao , Johannes K. L. Michel , Iain W. Stewart , Zhiquan Sun

The study of nuclear generalized parton distributions (GPDs) could be a crucial achievement of hadronic physics since they open new ways to obtain new information on the structure of bound nucleons, in particular, to access the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Matteo Rinaldi

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

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution and fragmentation functions are described as Fourier transforms of matrix elementscontaining nonlocal combinations of quark and gluon fields. These matrix elements also contain a gauge link…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 P. J. Mulders , M. G. A. Buffing , A. Mukherjee

Recent experimental and theoretical ideas are laying the ground for a new era in the knowledge of the parton structure of nuclei. We report on two promising directions beyond inclusive deep inelastic scattering experiments, aimed at, among…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-07-20 R. Dupré , S. Scopetta

We present the first study of quark gravitational transverse-momentum distributions within the light-front quark--diquark model (LFQDM) inspired by the soft-wall AdS/QCD framework. We derive analytical expressions for the six unpolarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Kauship Saha , Dipankar Chakrabarti , Asmita Mukherjee

We calculate nuclear enhanced power corrections to structure functions measured in deeply inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We find that the nuclear medium enhanced power corrections at order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaofeng Guo , Jianwei Qiu , Wei Zhu

We present an extraction of unpolarized partonic transverse momentum distributions (TMDs) from a simultaneous fit of available data measured in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan and Z-boson production. To connect data at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Alessandro Bacchetta , Filippo Delcarro , Cristian Pisano , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

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

Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions, also abbreviated as TMDs, offer a three-dimensional picture of hadrons by taking the intrinsic transverse momentum of the parton into consideration. Hence, they are very important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 Xiao Liu , Wenjuan Mao , Xiaoyu Wang , Bo-Qiang Ma

A study of high energy (43--68 MeV/nucleon) one-neutron removal reactions on a range of neutron-rich psd-shell nuclei (Z = 5--9, A = 12--25) has been undertaken. The inclusive longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions for the core…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Sauvan , F. Carstoiu , N. A. Orr

We study non-linear quantum corrections to transverse momentum broadening (TMB) of a fast parton propagating in dense QCD matter in the leading logarithmic approximation. These non-local corrections yield an anomalous super-diffusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Paul Caucal , Yacine Mehtar-Tani

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

We investigate the nuclear effects on the transverse and longitudinal responses in the deep inelastic region due to the nuclear binding and nucleon Fermi motion. We display the role of the transverse-longitudinal admixture due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ericson , S. Kumano

Transverse spin and transverse momentum distribution functions of the constituents of the nucleon are a crucial input for a complete description of the nucleon. COMPASS measured such for longitudinally and transversely polarized deuterons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 H. Wollny

We extract a target-side Cu transverse-momentum profile from fixed-target $p$--Cu Drell--Yan data by holding a momentum-space proton reference fixed and training only an asymmetric Cu kernel in the small-$q_T$ region. In the supported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 I. P. Fernando , D. Keller

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

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

In the continuation of our previous work, the transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra and nuclear modification factor ($R_{AA}$) are derived using relaxation time approximation of Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). The initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-19 Sushanta Tripathy , Arvind Khuntia , Swatantra Kumar Tiwari , Raghunath Sahoo