Transverse parton distribution functions at next-to-next-to-leading order: the quark-to-quark case.
We present a calculation of the perturbative quark-to-quark transverse parton distribution function at next-to-next-to-leading order based on a gauge invariant operator definition. We demonstrate for the first time that such a definition works beyond the first nontrivial order. We extract from our calculation the coefficient functions relevant for a next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic Q(T) resummation in a large class of processes at hadron colliders.
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
Thomas
T
Gehrmann
Thomas
T
Lübbert
Li Lin
LL
Yang