Jet Definition and Transverse-Momentum–Dependent Factorization in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering

IF 8.1 1区物理与天体物理 Q1 PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Physical review letters Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.134.061903

Paul Caucal, Edmond Iancu, A. H. Mueller, Feng Yuan

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Abstract

Using the color dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and the color glass condensate effective theory, we study semi-inclusive jet production in DIS at small x in the limit where the photon virtuality Q2 is much larger than the transverse momentum squared P⊥2 of the produced jet. In this limit, the cross section is dominated by aligned jet configurations, that is, quark–antiquark pairs in which one of the fermions—the would-be struck quark in the Breit frame—carries most of the longitudinal momentum of the virtual photon. We show that physically meaningful jet definitions in DIS are such that the effective axis of the jet sourced by the struck quark is controlled by its virtuality rather than by its transverse momentum. For such jet definitions, we show that the next-to-leading order cross section admits factorization in terms of the (sea) quark transverse momentum dependent distribution, which in turn satisfies a universal Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi and Sudakov evolution.

Published by the American Physical Society

2025

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Physical review letters 物理-物理：综合

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16.50

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7.00%

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2673

审稿时长

2.2 months

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