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We consider the transverse-momentum ($p_T$) distribution of $ZZ$ and $W^+W^-$ boson pairs produced in hadron collisions. At small $p_T$, the logarithmically enhanced contributions due to multiple soft-gluon emission are resummed to all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-03 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Dirk Rathlev , Marius Wiesemann

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

In this article, we consider the transverse momentum ($q_T$) distribution of $W$ and $Z$ bosons produced in hadronic collisions. We combine the $q_T$ resummation for QED and QCD radiation including the QED soft emissions from the $W$ boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Autieri , Leandro Cieri , Giancarlo Ferrera , German F. R. Sborlini

It has been shown previously that the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization of heavy quarkonium production requires a TMD shape function. Its perturbative tail can be extracted by matching the cross sections valid at low and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Daniël Boer , Jelle Bor , Luca Maxia , Cristian Pisano , Feng Yuan

We study the transverse momentum distribution for a $pair$ of heavy quarks produced in hadron-hadron interactions. Predictions for the large transverse momentum region are based on exact order $\alpha_s^3$ QCD perturbation theory. For the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Edmond L. Berger , Ruibin Meng

We present perturbative predictions for the transverse momentum (q_T) distribution of the Higgs boson at the LHC. At small q_T the logarithmically-enhanced terms are resummed to all orders up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Grazzini

We investigate the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark and gluon distribution functions in the modified chiral quark model ($\chi QM$). Calculations of the TMD quark and gluon densities, using the modified $\chi QM$ are done for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-30 H. Nematollahi , M. M. Yazdanpannah , A. Mirjalili

We present a short overview on transverse momentum dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions, giving their partonic interpretation and ways to access them. We then discuss the issue of their universality and its connection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Umberto D'Alesio

A new picture is given of generalized parton distributions probed in experiments in which the probe scale $Q^{2}$ and the momentum transfer $\DD^{2}$ are well separated. Application of this picture to the $Q^{2}$ dependence of the form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 John P. Ralston , Roman V. Buniy , Pankaj Jain

This paper is a part of a series of works where we in detail examine the concept of Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD), or k_T, factorization, which is frequently encountered in the literature and is widely used in the phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 Emil Avsar

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

The unpolarized and linearly polarized gluon TMDs can be directly probed in heavy quark and jet pair production in unpolarized electron-proton collisions by looking at observables, like transverse momentum distributions and azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-29 Cristian Pisano

The determination of the intrinsic transverse momentum distribution of partons is central both for applications of parton shower Monte Carlo generators and for QCD studies of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities. Valuable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Wenxiao Zhan , Siqi Yang , Minghui Liu , Liang Han , Francesco Hautmann

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

Transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) light-cone wave functions of a light meson are important ingredients in the TMD QCD factorization of exclusive processes. This factorization allows one conveniently resum Sudakov logarithms appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. P. Ma , Q. Wang

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 study the semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering at small $x$. A transverse momentum dependent factorization is found consistent with the results calculated in the small-$x$ approaches, such as the color-dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-23 Cyrille Marquet , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

We reconsider the evolution equations for transverse momentum dependent distributions recently proposed by us and recast them in a form which allows the comparison with results recently appeared in the literature. We show under which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Federico Alberto Ceccopieri , Luca Trentadue

Transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions are analyzed in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering at low transverse momentum using soft-collinear effective theory. The transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-29 Junegone Chay

We study factorization of processes involving two fragmentation functions in the case of very small transverse momenta. We consider two-hadron production in inclusive $e^+ e^-$ annihilation and demonstrate a new simple and illustrative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 I. V. Anikin , O. V. Teryaev