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This study is part of a project to investigate the transverse momentum dependence in parton distribution and fragmentation functions, analyzing (semi-)inclusive high-energy processes within a proper QCD framework. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-26 Alessandro Bacchetta , Miguel G. Echevarria , Marco Radici , Andrea Signori

We discuss the dependence on the flavor of the intrinsic transverse momentum in unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent distribution functions (TMD PDFs) and fragmentation functions (TMD FFs) analyzing data of semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-10 Andrea Signori , Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici

We report the first measurement of one- and two-point energy correlators within jets in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV, using the STAR detector at RHIC. These observables quantify the energy-weighted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-21 The STAR Collaboration

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

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) provide a powerful tool to study the evolution of scattered partons into final-state hadrons. In these proceedings, a variety of energy correlator measurements performed by the ALICE collaboration are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-01 Beatrice Liang-Gilman

The extraction of transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) is complicated by the presence of both initial- and final-state nonperturbative physics. We recently proposed measuring…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-10 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lorenzo Zoppi

We study transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) gluon distributions and factorization theorems for the gluon-initiated semi-inclusive processes at hadron colliders. Gauge-invariant TMD gluon distributions are defined, and their relations to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Ping Ma , Feng Yuan

We establish robust relations between Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions (TMDs) and collinear distributions. We define weighted integrals of TMDs that we call Transverse Momentum Moments (TMMs) and prove that TMMs are equal to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Oscar del Rio , Alexei Prokudin , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We study the spin-dependent cross section in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon collisions, $\ell + N^\uparrow\to \ell+h+X$. We focus on the cross section that is integrated over the transverse momentum $P_{h\perp}$ of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-12 Diego Scantamburlo , Marc Schlegel

The transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs), which are defined by gauge-invariant 3D parton correlators with staple-shaped lightlike Wilson lines, can be calculated from quark and gluon correlators fixed in the Coulomb gauge on a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Yong Zhao

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

Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) encode information about the intrinsic motion of quarks inside the nucleon. They are important non-perturbative ingredients in our understanding of, e.g., azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-11 Bernhard U. Musch , Philipp Hägler , Andreas Schäfer , Dru B. Renner , John W. Negele , LHPC Collaboration

The main aim of this paper is a new determination of transverse momentum dependence of unpolarized fragmentation function (TMD FFs) in single inclusive hadron production in electron-positron annihilation (SIA) process. Motivated by the need…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 Maryam Soleymaninia , Hamzeh Khanpour

We demonstrate a factorization formula for semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering with hadrons in the current fragmentation region detected at low transverse momentum. To facilitate the factorization, we introduce the transverse-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-01 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-ping Ma , Feng Yuan

One of the more promising observables to probe the high energy regime of the QCD dynamics in the future Electron-Ion Colliders (EIC) is the exclusive vector meson production cross section in coherent and incoherent interactions. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 M. Krelina , V. P. Goncalves , J. Cepila

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

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 develop a new approach to production of the spectator nucleons in the heavy ion collisions. The energy transfer to the spectator system is calculated using the Monte Carlo based on the updated version of our generator of configurations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-29 M. Alvioli , M. Strikman

The measurements of inclusive electron scattering from nuclear targets carried out at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in the mid 2000s have provided valuable novel information on the $A$-dependence of the modifications of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Omar Benhar , Alessandro Lovato

We perform the first simultaneous extraction of parton collinear and transverse degrees of freedom from low-energy fixed-target Drell-Yan data in order to compare the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions (PDFs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-28 P. C. Barry , L. Gamberg , W. Melnitchouk , E. Moffat , D. Pitonyak , A. Prokudin , N. Sato