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We compute the twist-2 matching of the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) linearly polarized gluon parton distribution and fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in QCD, supplemented by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Yu Jiao Zhu

A better understanding of transverse momentum (k_T-) dependent quark distributions in a hadron is needed to interpret several experimentally observed large angular asymmetries and to clarify the fundamental role of gauge links in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-15 Ph. Hägler , B. U. Musch , J. W. Negele , A. Schäfer

We show that transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), important non-perturbative quantities for describing the properties of hadrons in high-energy scattering processes such as Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu , Yu-Sheng Liu

We demonstrate that spontaneous transverse polarization of Lambda baryon ($\Lambda$) production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation can be described using the transverse momentum dependent polarizing fragmentation functions (TMD PFFs). Using a simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Daniel Callos , Zhong-Bo Kang , John Terry

The study and characterisation of transverse-momentum-dependent distribution functions (TMDs) is a major goal of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) physics programme. The study of gluon TMDs poses a greater challenge than for quark TMDs in DIS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-12-17 Thomas Burton

We investigate the leading-twist transverse momentum-dependent distribution functions (TMDs) for a physical electron, a spin-1/2 composite system consisting of a bare electron and a photon, using the Basis Light-front Quantization (BLFQ)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-10 Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We compute the resummed hadronic transverse energy (E_T) distribution due to initial-state QCD radiation in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders. The resummed exponent, parton distributions and coefficient functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Andreas Papaefstathiou , Jennifer M. Smillie , Bryan R. Webber

The Bayesian reweighting procedure is extended to the case of multiple independent extractions of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs). By exploiting the data on transverse single spin asymmetries, $A_N$, for inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-17 Mariaelena Boglione , Umberto D'Alesio , Carlo Flore , Josè Osvaldo Gonzalez-Hernandez , Francesco Murgia , Alexei Prokudin

Using soft collinear effective field theory, we derive the factorization theorem for the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent (quasi-TMD) operator. We check the factorization theorem at one-loop level and compute the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Alexey A. Vladimirov , Andreas Schäfer

In view of the increasing precision of theoretical calculations and experimental measurements, power corrections to transverse-momentum-dependent observables are highly important. We study the next-to-leading power corrections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Rafael F. del Castillo , Max Jaarsma , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter Waalewijn

The recent formulation of the factorization theorem for transverse momentum spectra in terms of well-defined transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs), allows for a better understanding of the role of the perturbative and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-13 Umberto D'Alesio , Miguel G. Echevarria , Stefano Melis , Ignazio Scimemi

We present exploratory studies of the 3D proton tomography through polarized $T$-odd gluon TMDs at leading twist, obtained in a spectator-model framework. We embody in our approach a flexible parameterization for the spectator-mass spectral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Alessandro Bacchetta , Francesco Giovanni Celiberto , Marco Radici

Transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) are studied in the framework of quark models. In particular, quark model relations among TMDs are reviewed and their physical origin is discussed in terms of rotational-symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Cedric Lorce , Barbara Pasquini

In this proceeding, we review our recent work in which we performed the first global analysis of nuclear modified Transverse Momentum Distribution Functions (TMDs). We demonstrate for the first time that the global set of TMD experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Mishary Alrashed , Daniele Anderle , Zhong-Bo Kang , John Terry , Hongxi Xing

Generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs), as mother funtions of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) and generalized parton distributions (GPDs), encode the most general parton structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-01 Xuan Luo , Hao Sun

We present a study of the nuclear-medium induced transverse momentum broadening of particle production in future electron-ion-collision~(EIC) experiments. By considering the multiple scattering between hard partons and cold nuclear medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Peng Ru , Zhong-Bo Kang , Enke Wang , Hongxi Xing , Ben-Wei Zhang

We consider the production of a pair of heavy quarks ($Q{\bar Q}$) in hadronic collisions. When the transverse momentum $q_T$ of the heavy-quark pair is much smaller than its invariant mass, the QCD perturbative expansion is affected by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Catani , M. Grazzini , A. Torre

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colourless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. The logarithmically-enhanced contributions at small transverse momentum are treated to all perturbative orders by a universal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Catani , L. Cieri , D. de Florian , G. Ferrera , M. Grazzini

We develop a framework for a systematic resummation of the transverse momentum distribution of top-quark pairs produced at hadron colliders based on effective field theory. Compared to Drell-Yan and Higgs production, a novel soft function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-14 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Hai Tao Li , Ding Yu Shao , Li Lin Yang

We carry out a detailed study of medium modifications on momentum and angular correlations between a large transverse momentum hadron and a $Z/\gamma$ trigger in relativistic heavy-ion collisions within a perturbative QCD parton model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-01 Zhan Gao , Lin Chen , Peng-Hui Hu , Man Xie , Han-Zhong Zhang