A new approach to semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering with QED and QCD factorization

Abstract We present the details of a new factorized approach to semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering which treats QED and QCD radiation on equal footing, and provides a systematically improvable approximation to the extraction of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions. We demonstrate...

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Autores principales: Tianbo Liu, W. Melnitchouk, Jian-Wei Qiu, N. Sato
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Publicado: SpringerOpen 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/5538cb5f7dd6476eafb91dd80c2f4b79
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Sumario:Abstract We present the details of a new factorized approach to semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering which treats QED and QCD radiation on equal footing, and provides a systematically improvable approximation to the extraction of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions. We demonstrate how the QED contributions can be well approximated by collinear factorization, and illustrate the application of the factorized approach to QED radiation in inclusive scattering. For semi-inclusive processes, we show how radiation effects prevent a well-defined “photon-nucleon” frame, forcing one to use a two-step process to account for the radiation. We illustrate the utility of the new method by explicit application to the spin-dependent Sivers and Collins asymmetries.