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Experimental measurements of Drell-Yan (DY) vector-boson production are available from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and from lower-energy collider and fixed-target experiments. In the region of low vector-boson transverse momenta $q_T$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Francesco Hautmann , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We discuss prospects for Monte Carlo event generators incorporating the dynamics of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions. We illustrate TMD evolution in the parton branching formalism, and present Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-09 F. Hautmann

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

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions in a proton are important in high energy physics from both theoretical and phenomenological points of view. Using the latest RHIC and LHC data on the inclusive soft hadron production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-19 N. A. Abdulov , H. Jung , A. V. Lipatov , G. I. Lykasov , M. A. Malyshev

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 investigate the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) in the quasi-parton-distribution framework. The long standing hurdle of the so-called pinch pole singularity from the space-like gauge links in the TMD definitions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-12 Xiangdong Ji , Lu-Chang Jin , Feng Yuan , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

Transverse parton momentum dependent distribution functions (TMDs) of the nucleon are studied in a covariant model, which describes the intrinsic motion of partons in terms of a covariant momentum distribution. The consistency of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 A. V. Efremov , P. Schweitzer , O. V. Teryaev , P. Zavada

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

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions, commonly referred to as transverse momentum distributions (TMDs). TMDs describe the distribution of…

QCD evolution equations can be recast in terms of parton branching processes. We present a new numerical solution of the equations. We show that this parton-branching solution can be applied to analyze infrared contributions to evolution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Hautmann , H. Jung , A. Lelek , V. Radescu , R. Zlebcik

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

Off-shell, transverse-momentum dependent splitting functions can be defined from the high-energy limit of partonic decay amplitudes. Based on these splitting functions, we construct Sudakov form factors and formulate a new parton branching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 F. Hautmann , M. Hentschinski , L. Keersmaekers , A. Kusina , K. Kutak , A. Lelek

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 evaluate the pion and kaon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) in the instanton liquid model (ILM), a model of the QCD vacuum at low resolution. The relevant TMDs are factored into a constituent quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Wei-Yang Liu , Ismail Zahed

We present new results of our studies of soft-gluon angular ordering effects on the evolution of both collinear and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions, and discuss their implications for precision predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-29 Aleksandra Lelek

We discuss a recently proposed branching algorithm which incorporates transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton splitting probabilities, and can be used for Monte Carlo event generators based on TMD distributions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-01 Lissa Keersmaekers

We propose a new analytical expression for the Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD, or unintegrated) gluon density in the proton. Essential phenomenological parameters are extracted from the LHC data on inclusive hadron production in $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 A. V. Lipatov , G. I. Lykasov , M. A. Malyshev

This article gives an introduction to transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions and their use in shower Monte Carlo event generators for high-energy hadron collisions, and describes recent progress in the treatment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-30 F. Hautmann , M. Hentschinski , H. Jung

In this paper we present a new technique for analysis of transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions, based on the Bessel weighting formalism. The procedure is applied to studies of the double longitudinal spin asymmetry in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Aghasyan , H. Avakian , E. De Sanctis , L. Gamberg , M. Mirazita , B. Musch , A. Prokudin , P. Rossi

The description of the Drell-Yan (DY) transverse momentum spectrum requires matching of fixed order QCD calculations with soft gluon resummation up to all orders in the QCD coupling. It has been noticed in the literature that a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-21 Aleksandra Lelek