Gauge-invariant TMD factorization for Drell-Yan hadronic tensor at small x
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-05-26 v3
Abstract
The Drell-Yan hadronic tensor for electromagnetic (EM) current is calculated in the Sudakov region with accuracy, first at the tree level and then with the double-log accuracy. It is demonstrated that in the leading order in the higher-twist quark-quark-gluon TMDs reduce to leading-twist TMDs due to QCD equation of motion. The resulting tensor for unpolarized hadrons is EM gauge-invariant and depends on two leading-twist TMDs: responsible for total DY cross section, and Boer-Mulders function . The order-of-magnitude estimates of angular distributions for DY process seem to agree with LHC results at corresponding kinematics.
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@article{arxiv.2012.01588,
title = {Gauge-invariant TMD factorization for Drell-Yan hadronic tensor at small x},
author = {Ian Balitsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01588},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Typos corrected, references added, and Fig. 3 replaced