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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Claude Bourrely , Franco Buccella , Jen-Chieh Peng

This work presents a novel method for extracting potential barrier distributions from experimental fusion cross sections. We utilize a simple Gaussian process regression (GPR) framework to model the observed cross sections as a function of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-10 Kyle Godbey

Two main frameworks for defining transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities are the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) formalism, and the Parton Branching (PB) approach. While PB-TMDs have an explicit dependence on a single scale which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-21 Armando Bermudez Martinez

During the INT-18-3 workshop, we presented an analysis of unpolarized Drell-Yan pair production in pion-nucleus scattering with a particular focus into the pion Transverse Momentum Distributions in view of the future Electron Ion Collider.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-03 A. Courtoy

We present first observations of the transversity parton distribution based on an analysis of pion-pair production in deep inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targets. The extraction of transversity relies on the knowledge of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-27 Alessandro Bacchetta , A. Courtoy , Marco Radici

We study the Drell-Yan cross section differential with respect to the transverse momentum of the produced lepton pair. We consider data with moderate invariant mass Q of the lepton pair, between 4.5 GeV and 13.5 GeV, and similar (although…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-31 Alessandro Bacchetta , Giuseppe Bozzi , Martin Lambertsen , Fulvio Piacenza , Julius Steiglechner , Werner Vogelsang

A nonparametric kernel density estimator for directional-linear data is introduced. The proposal is based on a product kernel accounting for the different nature of both (directional and linear) components of the random vector. Expressions…

We have studied the prospects of using the Drell-Yan dilepton process in pion-nucleus collisions as a novel input in the global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). In a NLO QCD framework, we find the measured nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-17 Petja Paakkinen , Kari J. Eskola , Hannu Paukkunen

We present an update of a previous global analysis of the experimental data on azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS), from the HERMES and COMPASS Collaborations, and in e+ e- -> h1 h2 X processes, from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , U. D'Alesio , A. Kotzinian , F. Murgia , A. Prokudin , S. Melis

Doubly stochastic Poisson processes, also known as the Cox processes, frequently occur in various scientific fields. In this article, motivated primarily by analyzing Cox process data in biophysics, we propose a nonparametric kernel-based…

Applications · Statistics 2011-01-07 Tingting Zhang , S. C. Kou

The Drell-Yan (DY) processes with unpolarized colliding hadrons and with the single transversally polarized hadron are considered. The possibility of direct (without any model assumptions) extraction of both transversity and its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Sissakian , O. Yu. Shevchenko , A. P. Nagaytsev , O. N. Ivanov

As part of the DESY summer student program 2021, transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions obtained from the Parton Branching (PB) method were combined with next-to-leading-order (NLO) using the POWHEG method. Computations of…

We investigate the information which could be obtained from Drell-Yan processes with sufficiently intense beams of charged kaons on isoscalar targets. It is found that combinations of $K^+$ and $K^-$ Drell-Yan measurements on isoscalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-17 J. T. Londergan , G. Q. Liu , A. W. Thomas

The kernel polynomial method allows to sample overall spectral properties of a quantum system, while sparse diagonalization provides accurate information about a few important states. We present a method combining these two approaches…

The transversity was recently extracted from data on the production of hadron pairs in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. This analysis can be conveniently performed in the framework of collinear factorization where the elementary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-04 Marco Radici

We propose a novel kernel-based two-sample test that leverages the spectral decomposition of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) statistic to identify and utilize well-estimated directional components in reproducing kernel Hilbert space…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Rui Cui , Yuhao Li , Xiaojun Song

We study one-loop QCD corrections to the single transverse spin asymmetry in Drell-Yan process. The invariant mass of virtual photon and angular distributions of final lepton in Collins-Soper frame are measured. Especially, the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Guang-Peng Zhang

One of the important objectives of the COMPASS experiment (SPS, CERN) \cite{Abbon:2007pq} is the exploration of the transverse spin structure of the nucleon via spin dependent azimuthal asymmetries in single-hadron production in deep…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-07-03 Bakur Parsamyan

We predict the features of the Collins function, which describes the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark into an unpolarized hadron, by modeling the fragmentation process at a low energy scale. We use the chiral invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bacchetta , R. Kundu , A. Metz , P. J. Mulders

We present the first extraction of the transversity distribution based on the global analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering and in proton-proton collisions with one transversely polarized proton. The extraction relies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Marco Radici