Thursday, April 4, 2013

1304.0944 (P. J. Mulders et al.)

Universality of TMD distribution functions of definite rank    [PDF]

P. J. Mulders, M. G. A. Buffing, A. Mukherjee
Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution and fragmentation functions are described as Fourier transforms of matrix elementscontaining nonlocal combinations of quark and gluon fields. These matrix elements also contain a gauge link operator with a process dependent path, of which the process dependence that can be traced back to the color flow in the process. Expanding into irreducible tensors built from the transverse momenta $p_\st$, we can define a universal set of TMD correlators of definite rank with a well-defined operator structure.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0944

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