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- Title
Wilson Lines off the Light-Cone in TMD PDFs.
- Authors
Mulders, P.; Buffing, M.
- Abstract
Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions also take into account the transverse momentum ( p) of the partons. The p-integrated analogues can be linked directly to quark and gluon matrix elements using the operator product expansion in QCD, involving operators of definite twist. TMDs also involve operators of higher twist, which are not suppressed by powers of the hard scale, however. Taking into account gauge links that no longer are along the light-cone, one finds that new distribution functions arise. They appear at leading order in the description of azimuthal asymmetries in high-energy scattering processes. In analogy to the collinear operator expansion, we define a universal set of TMDs of definite rank and point out the importance for phenomenology.
- Subjects
MOMENTUM (Mechanics); PARTONS; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); GLUONS; MATRICES (Mathematics); QUARKS
- Publication
Few-Body Systems, 2014, Vol 55, Issue 5-7, p275
- ISSN
0177-7963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00601-014-0843-1