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Title: Scheme dependence and transverse momentum distribution interpretation of Collins–Soper–Sterman resummation

Journal Article · · Physics Letters B

Following an earlier derivation by Catani, de Florian and Grazzini (2000) on the scheme dependence in the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) resummation formalism in hard scattering processes, we investigate the scheme dependence of the Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs) and their applications. By adopting a universal C-coefficient function associated with the integrated parton distributions, the difference between various TMD schemes can be attributed to a perturbative calculable function depending on the hard momentum scale. We further apply several TMD schemes to the Drell-Yan process of lepton pair production in hadronic collisions, and find that the constrained non-perturbative form factors in different schemes are consistent with each other and with that of the standard CSS formalism.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
1244145
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1222203; OSTI ID: 1439978
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-15-2047; DOE/OR/23177-3347; arXiv:1505.05588; S037026931500739X; PII: S037026931500739X
Journal Information:
Physics Letters B, Journal Name: Physics Letters B Vol. 750 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 32 works
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