QCD Evolution 2024

27 May 2024, 08:30 → 31 May 2024, 14:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Foscolo (University of Pavia)

Alessandro Bacchetta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Andrea Signori (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Barbara Pasquini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Lorenzo Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Marco Radici (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

The QCD Evolution workshop series started in 2011 with a two-day meeting held at Jefferson Lab that addressed the theoretical underpinnings of generalised parton distributions (GPDs) and transverse momentum distributions (TMDs), with a particular focus on the QCD evolution of the non-collinear TMDs. Since this initial meeting QCD Evolution has grown to be a leading hadron physics meeting with a focus on hadron tomography.

 

A main objective of QCD Evolution Workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the recent scientific accomplishments in areas such as Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs), Generalised Parton Distributions (GPDs), and small-x physics, together with advances in perturbative and non-perturbative techniques within QCD, such as lattice QCD and effective field theory techniques.

 

In doing so this workshop also aims to support and guide the physics programs at facilities such as Jefferson Lab, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) complex at CERN. The workshop is also central to the building of the next-generation nuclear physics facility in the US, the Electron Ion Collider (EIC).

                          

 

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Monday, 27 May

08:30 → 09:15 Opening: Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Opening: Welcome

09:30 → 10:30 Monday: morning / 1

Convener: Alessandro Bacchetta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:30 Lattice QCD for TMD Physics: Nonperturbative Collins-Soper Kernel

Progresses related to lattice QCD calculations of the rapidity anomalous dimension of quark transverse-momentum-dependent distributions, i.e., the Collins-Soper (CS) kernel, will be presented. Methodological and numerical advances over the last year will be reviewed. Results from the state-of-the-art lattice QCD calculations will be presented and compared with the those from the phenomenological parametrizations of experimental data.

Speaker: Swagato Mukherjee (Assistant Physicist)

Mukherjee.pdf

10:00 Understanding the Energy Momentum Distribution with the Weizsäcker-Williams Method

Gravitational Form Factors (GFFs) provide an important portal for probing the energy-momentum and mass distribution of nucleons and nuclei. This work presents the study of photon and gluon momentum GFFs using the Weizsäcker-Williams method of relativistic hadrons.

First, we express the photon A-GFFs in terms of charge form factors and discuss the corresponding photon radius. Furthermore, we derive an integral relation between the gluon A-GFF and the Laplacian of the dipole scattering amplitude in the small-x framework. This relation allows us to unveil the gluon energy-momentum distribution inside hadrons through measurements at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider.

Additionally, we generalize the analysis to study the A-GFF of nuclei and propose employing the nuclear gluon mean square radius, together with the charge distribution, to constrain the neutron distribution for large nuclei.

This work provides important insights into the energy-momentum and mass distribution of nucleons and nuclei, which are crucial for our understanding of the fundamental structure of matter and the strong interaction.

Speaker: Bowen Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong-(Shenzhen))

Pavia-Xiao.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Monday: morning / 2

Convener: Alessandro Bacchetta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:00 Renormalons and power corrections in pseudo- and quasi-GPDs

High-order behavior of the perturbative expansion for short-distance observables in QCD is intimately related to the contributions of small momenta in the corresponding Feynman diagrams and this correspondence provides one with a useful tool to investigate power-suppressed nonperturbative corrections. We use this technique to study the structure of power corrections to parton quasi- and pseudo-GPDs which are used in lattice calculations of generalized parton distributions. As the main result, we predict the functional dependence of the leading power corrections to quasi(pseudo)-GPDs on $x$ variable for nonzero skewedness parameter $\xi$. The kinematic point $x=\pm\xi$ turns out to be special. We find that the nonperturbative corrections to quasi-GPDs at this point
are suppressed by the first power of the hard scale only. These contributions come from soft momenta and have nothing to do with the known UV renormalon in the Wilson line. We also show that power corrections can be strongly suppressed by the normalization procedure.

Speaker: Vladimir Braun (University of Regensburg)

Evolution2024.pdf

11:30 Positivity constraints on parton distributions

I discuss the constraints that positivity of physical cross-sections impose on unpolarized and polarized collinear parton distribution functions. I explain why in a generic factorizations scheme leading-twist PDFs may turn negative beyond leading order, and show that however in the commonly used MSbar scheme this cannot happen in the perturbative regime. I then discuss the implications of this for phenomenology, using recent results both in the unpolarized and polarized case.

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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12:00 Semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering at NNLO in QCD

Semi-inclusive hadron production processes in deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering (SIDIS) are important probes of the fragmentation dynamics of quarks into hadrons. Moreover, longitudinally polarized SIDIS is a powerful tool for resolving the quark flavor decomposition of the proton's spin structure. In this talk, I will present the recent calculation of the full next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized SIDIS coefficient functions.

Speaker: Giovanni Stagnitto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

stagnitto_PAVIA_270524.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 Monday: afternoon / 1

Convener: Marco Radici (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:30 Helicity and OAM at Low-x: an Exact Solution for Revised Helicity Evolution and the Small-x Asymptoics of OAM Distributions

We present an exact analytic solution of the revised large-$N_c$ small-$x$ helicity evolution equations derived recently. We find the corresponding small-$x$ asymptotics of the flavor-singlet helicity PDFs to be
\begin{align}
\Delta \Sigma (x, Q^2) \sim \Delta G (x, Q^2) \sim \left( \frac{1}{x} \right)^{\alpha_h}
\end{align}
with the intercept given by an exact analytic expression which numerically evaluates to $\alpha_h \approx 3.661 \sqrt{\tfrac{\alpha_s N_c}{2 \pi}}$. This appears to slightly disagree with the results of Bartels at al from 1996, where the intercept at large $N_c$ is given by a different analytic expression, evaluating to $\alpha_h \approx 3.664 \sqrt{\tfrac{\alpha_s N_c}{2 \pi}}$. We also obtain the all-order small-$x$ and large-$N_c$ polarized anomalous dimension $\Delta \gamma_{GG} (\omega)$ and demonstrate that it agrees with the existing finite-order results up to the three known loops.

We then turn our attention to the orbital angular momentum (OAM) distributions. We derive new small-$x$ evolution equations needed to extract small-$x$ asymptotics of OAM distributions. Solving these equations we obtain
\begin{align}
L_{q + {\bar q}} (x, Q^2) \sim L_G (x, Q^2) \sim \left( \frac{1}{x} \right)^{\alpha_h}
\end{align}
with the same intercept as for the helicity PDFs.

Speakers: Yuri Kovchegov (The Ohio State University), Yuri Kovchegov (The Ohio State University)

Evolution_2024.pdf

Evolution_2024.pptx

15:00 pT resummation in Drell Yan and determination of the W mass at hadron colliders

I describe recent developments in Drell Yan transverse-momentum resummation, and their implications on the definition of a new observable for W-boson mass extraction from charge-current Drell Yan data.

Speaker: Mr Paolo Torrielli (Università di Torino e INFN)

Torrielli_QCDEvolution.pdf

15:30 Complete one-loop study of exclusive $J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ photoproduction

We perform the first complete one-loop study of exclusive photoproduction of vector quarkonia off a proton, including full generalised-parton-distribution (GPD) evolution. We confirm the perturbative instability of the cross section at high photon-proton-collision energies at Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) using collinear factorisation. Such an instability is known since 20 years and has been tackled by a scale-fixing criterion and the so-called $Q_0$-subtraction procedure to avoid the over-subtraction of the collinear singularities. In this work, we instead resolve this problem by matching High-Energy Factorisation (HEF) in the Doubly-Logarithmic Approximation (DLA) to collinear factorisation as previously done for inclusive quarkonium production. Such a DLA is a subset of the Leading-Logarithmic Approximation (LLA) of HEF which resums higher-order QCD corrections proportional to $\alpha_s^n \ln^{n-1}(\hat{s}/M^2)$ in the Regge limit $\hat{s} \gg M^2$. This is strictly consistent with the NLO DGLAP evolution of GPDs. We use two models for the GPDs entering the calculation: the first one is taken from the PARTONS framework, which includes a full GPD evolution. The second one corresponds to an approximation valid at high energies in terms of Parton Distributions Functions (PDFs) via the Shuvaev transform, in which only PDFs are evolved. We find that the resummation cures the instability observed for the NLO calculation in CF at high energies and finally paves the way for GPD-based NLO phenomenology for exclusive quarkonium photoproduction. We then compare our results for the two GPD models and assess the reliability of the Shuvaev transform as a means to probe the small $x$ gluon PDFs via the exclusive photoproduction of vector quarkonia.

Speaker: Jean-Philippe Lansberg (IJCLab- Paris-Saclay U. - CNRS)

QCD_Evolution_2024_Exclusive_onium_production-270524-final.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Monday: afternoon / 2

Convener: Leonard Gamberg

16:30 Progress in Understanding Heavy Quark Fragmentation in the Transverse Plane

I discuss ongoing progress in the understanding of heavy-quark transverse momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation functions (FFs). These advances include their explicit next-to-leading order calculation in massive QCD and boosted Heavy-Quark Effective Theory (bHQET), exposing a rich singularity structure that is also relevant for the extension of fixed-order subtraction schemes to quasi-collinear limits, and a novel form of Collins-Soper-style evolution with respect to a dimensionless boost parameter. I further present how many independent nonperturbative bHQET functions are needed to fully characterize heavy-quark fragmentation in the transverse plane, accounting -- for the first time -- for arbitrary heavy hadron polarization. This analysis exposes powerful spin symmetry relations across all possible (polarized) TMD FFs for heavy quarks.

Speaker: Johannes Michel (Nikhef/University of Amsterdam)

2024-04-27_QCD_Evolution_Johannes_Michel.pdf

17:00 Angular dependence of Drell-Yan process in the TMD factorization

I present the description of angular dependence of Drell-Yan process in the TMD factorization theorem. It gives access to a new details of nucleon structure, for example, it allows the separation between quark and anti-quark TMDPDFs, and is sensitive to the Boer-Mulders function. The analysis is made with the help of kinematic power corrections (KPC).

Speaker: Alexey Vladimirov

Vladimirov.pdf

17:30 Transverse Momentum Moments: From TMDs to collinear distributions

In this presentation, I explore the connection between Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions (TMDs) and collinear distributions through the introduction and analysis of Transverse Momentum Moments (TMMs). These moments are defined as weighted integrals of TMDs over their transverse momentum with a cut-off scale. I illustrate that TMMs can be understood as equivalent to collinear distributions computed within a minimal subtraction scheme, with a perturbatively calculable factor enabling their transformation to the standard $\overline{\text{MS}}$-scheme. As a result, this framework presents promising opportunities for the simultaneous extraction of TMDs and PDFs in future research investigations. My focus will be on describing the characteristics of the zeroth, first, and second TMMs, accompanied by providing phenomenological results based on current TMD extractions.

Speaker: Oscar del Rio Garcia (Complutense University of Madrid)

Oscar_QCD_Evolution_2024.pdf

Tuesday, 28 May

09:00 → 10:30 Tuesday: morning / 1

Convener: Alexey Prokudin (JLAb)

09:00 High-Energy Behavior of pseudo- and quasi-PDFs: Implications for Lattice Calculations

Pseudo and quasi-PDFs are key tools to compute parton distribution functions (PDFs) directly on the lattice.
However, using the lattice to make these calculations has its challenges. To get the Bjorken-x dependence from the bi-local operator, one needs to know the behavior of these operators for large values of the momentum hadronic target.
Lattice calculation, on the other hand, can provide values only for finite values of this parameter.
I will describe the method to obtain such behavior by resumming the necessary logarithms, thereby providing a way to enhance the accuracy and reliability of lattice-derived PDFs.

Speaker: Giovanni Antonio Chirilli (University of Salento)

QCDevolution24.pdf

09:30 SIDIS at small x: Sudakov double logs from NLO corrections

We calculate the next to leading order corrections to SIDIS at small Bjorken x using the color glass condensate formalism. We first show that all UV and soft divergences cancel. We then show that collinear divergences are absorbed into DGLAP evolution of quark-hadron fragmentation function while the rapidity divergences are absorbed into BK/JIMWLK evolution of dipoles. We finally show that imposing a kinematic constraint on the radiated gluon allows one to extract the Sudakov double log contributions in the high $Q^2$ limit.

Speakers: Jamal Jalilian-Marian, Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College)

JJM-evolution-05-2024.pdf

10:00 $1/Q^2$ power corrections to TMD factorization for Drell-Yan hadronic tensor

I present the full list of ${1\over Q^2}$ power corrections to unpolarized Drell-Yan hadronic tensor for electromagnetic (EM) current at large $N_c$ and demonstrate EM gauge invariance at this level.

Speaker: Ian Balitsky

Balitsky_2024.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Tuesday: morning / 2

Convener: Alexey Prokudin (JLAb)

11:00 TMD factorization: Bridging large x and small x

QCD factorization takes on different forms in the large-x and the small-x regimes. In the large-x motivated collinear factorization, one gets the DGLAP evolution equation, whereas, in the small-x motivated rapidity factorization, the BFKL equation is the major player. To unify different regimes, a new TMD factorization based on the background field method is proposed, which not only reduces to CSS and DGLAP in the large-x limit and BFKL in the small-x limit, but also defines a general evolution away from these regimes. Such a factorization has the potential to significantly advance our comprehension of high-energy processes and the three-dimensional structure of hadrons.

Speaker: Shaswat Tiwari (North Carolina State University)

QCD_evolution_2024_Shaswat_S_Tiwari.pdf

11:30 Energy-Energy Correlation in the back-to-back region at N3LL+NNLO in QCD

We consider the Energy-Energy Correlation function in electron-positron annihilation to hadrons. We concentrate on the back-to-back region, performing all-order resummation of the logarithmically enhanced contributions in QCD perturbation theory, up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (N3LL) accuracy. Away from the back-to-back region, we consistently combine resummed predictions with the known fixed-order results up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We present an illustrative comparison with LEP data and a model for inclusion of NP QCD effects.

Speaker: Giancarlo Ferrera (University of Milan and INFN, Milan)

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12:00 Parton pseudo-Distributions and their evolution

The calculation of parton distributions of the nucleon is a requisite for understanding hadronic cross sections in terms of quarks and gluons. Over the last decade many calculations from first principles lattice QCD have begun through matrix elements which can be factorized similarly to cross sections. In this talk, I will highlight our calculations using the pseudo-PDF approach and its relation to the standard PDF. In this framework, lattice data can be combined with experimental data to obtain higher quality PDFs than either individually. Furthermore we can study the scale dependence to non-perturbatively learn the evolution of the parton pseudo-distributions.

Speaker: Joseph Karpie (Jefferson Lab)

Karpie_qcd_evo_2024.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 Tuesday: afternoon / 1

Convener: Barbara Pasquini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:30 Explore Nucleon Tomography Through Correlation Measurements

Correlation measurements in DIS and pp collisions provide unique opportunity to explore nucleon structure, including TMDs, GPDs, and more recently Wigner distributions. In this talk, I will review some of recent studies, which can be explored at the current and future facilities, such as JLab 12 GeV, EIC and LHC.

Speaker: Feng Yuan (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

evolution24.pdf

15:00 Recent progress in the determination of GPDs and TMDs in lattice QCD

Lattice QCD simulations are nowadays being done with physical values of the light, strange and charm quark masses. These state-of-the-art gauge ensembles are enabling precision hadron structure studies. Mellin moments are extracted at the physical point providing information of the momentum fraction and angular momentum carried by quarks and gluons in hadrons. In parallel, new theoretical developments are allowing the computation of GDPs and TMDs directly in lattice QCD. Recent progress on the computation of these quantities will be presented.

Speaker: Prof. Constantia Alexandrou (University of Cyprus & The Cyprus Institute)

CA_QCD2024.pdf

15:30 Gluon TMD modeling & proton 3D imaging

We present exploratory studies of the 3D gluon content of the proton, as a result of analyses on leading-twist transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) gluon distribution functions, calculated in a spectator model for the parent proton. Our formalism embodies a fit-based parameterization for the spectator-mass density, suited to describe both the small-x and the moderate-x regime. Particular attention is paid to the T-odd gluon TMDs, which represent a key ingredient in the description of relevant spin asymmetries emerging when the nucleon is polarized, as the gluon Sivers effect. All these analyses are helpful to shed light on the gluon dynamics inside nucleons and nuclei, which is one of the primary goals of new-generation colliders, as the Electron-Ion Collider, the High-Luminosity LHC, and its fixed-target program.

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH Madrid)

talk_QCD_Evolution_2024_Celiberto_Gluon_TMDs.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Tuesday: afternoon / 2

Convener: Bowen Xiao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong-(Shenzhen))

16:30 Breakdown of collinear factorisation in exclusive $\pi^0 \gamma$ photoproduction due to Glauber pinch

In this talk, I will discuss our work in 2311.09146, regarding the breakdown of collinear factorisation in the exclusive photoproduction of a $\pi^0 \gamma$ pair. Such a process is sensitive to both quark and gluon GPD channels. In the latter case, the amplitude fails to factorise, due to the presence of a Glauber pinch, which has the same power counting as the collinear pinch. The Glauber pinch that occurs here is peculiar, since the mechanism that produces it involves two loop integrals. This is corroborated by an explicit calculation of the gluon GPD channel to $\pi^0 \gamma$ pair photoproduction, which leads to a divergent amplitude already at leading twist-2 and at leading order in $\alpha_s$. Such collinear factorisation breaking effects also occur in similar processes, such as the crossed channel of $\pi^0 N \to \gamma\gamma N$ scattering for the same reason. On the other hand, it should be stressed that for processes where the gluon GPD channel is forbidden, which correspond to the case where the outgoing meson is a charged pion or a rho meson, collinear factorisation works without any issues.

Speaker: Saad Nabeebaccus (IJCLab)

nabeebaccus-factorisation-breaking-QCD-evolution-2024.pdf

17:00 Leading-Twist Flavor Singlet Quark TMDs at Small-x

We study the small-$x$ asymptotics of the flavor singlet, leading-twist quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) via the eikonal expansion of quark propagator and the gauge link, expressing the TMD operator definitions at small-$x$ in terms of polarized dipole amplitudes, which involve an insertion of appropriate spin-dependent parton-exchange vertices into the eikonal, unpolarized Wilson line. The small-$x$ evolution equations for polarized dipole amplitudes are constructed via the recently developed light-cone operator treatment (LCOT) method, and subsequently solved in the large-$N_c$, linearized, double-logarithmic approximation (DLA), for the high-rapidity asymptotic behavior of the polarized dipole amplitudes. These results yield the small-$x$ asymptotics of all the remaining leading-twist, flavor-singlet quark TMDs.

Speaker: Yossathorn Tawabutr (University of Jyväskylä)

Slides_Tawabutr.pdf

17:30 Exclusive and semi-inclusive diffractive processes in the shockwave approach

The center-of-mass energies available at modern accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and at forthcoming generation accelerators, such as the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), offer us a unique opportunity to investigate hadronic matter under the most extreme conditions ever reached. In particular, they allow access to the so-called \textit{Regge-Gribov} (or \textit{semi-hard}) limit of QCD, characterized by the scale hierarchy $s \gg \{Q^2 \} \gg \Lambda_{{ \rm{QCD}}}^2$, where $\sqrt{s}$ is the center-of-mass energy, $\{ Q \}$ a set of hard scales characterizing the process and $\Lambda_{{\rm{QCD}}}$ is the QCD mass scale. This kinematic limit is the stage where some of the most intriguing phenomena of strong interactions manifest themselves, such as the formation of a state of gluonic matter that is known under the name of \textit{color glass condensate} (CGC). This state is characterized by a high-density of particles possessing a color charge (color condensate), by a slow evolution compared to the natural time of the interaction and by a disordered field distribution (properties assimilable to those of a glass). The quest for the saturation regime constitutes one of the pillars of the EIC physics program and a stimulating opportunity for the LHC experiments. In order to reveal saturation, highly accurate theoretical predictions are therefore unavoidable

In this talk, I will present the full next-to-leading order results for the cross-sections of diffractive single- or double hadron photo- or electroproduction with large $p_T$, on a nucleon or a nucleus and a pioneering calculation of the exclusive diffractive production of a transversely polarized light-meson in $\gamma^{(*)}$ p collision, obtained in a framework mixing the higher-twist formalism of exclusive processes with the Balitsky shockwave effective theory of small-$x$ physics.

Speaker: Michael Fucilla

Fucilla.pdf

Wednesday, 29 May

09:00 → 10:30 Wednesday: morning / 1

Convener: Umberto D'Alesio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:00 Nuclear-modified TMD PDFs and FFs

For more than 50 years, bound nucleons have been known to undergo non-trivial modifications due to the presence of the cold nuclear medium. During this time, experimental measurements at collider facilities have focused on exploring how the one-dimensional structure of nucleons is modified, with global QCD analyses proving extremely successful in extracting these distributions. More recently, we have extended this methodology to describe the three-dimensional structure of bound nucleons and used experimental data from Jefferson Lab to constrain the nuclear-modified TMD fragmentation functions. Our methodology incorporates the global set of experimental data from both Drell-Yan production and Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering. Through a comprehensive global extraction of these distributions, we demonstrate the effectiveness of this extension by strongly describing the entire global dataset. Additionally, I will discuss the use of lepton-jet correlations and transverse EECs as a precision probe of the structure of bound nucleons and efforts to extend this framework within a GLV formalism.

Speaker: John Terry (LANL)

QCD-Evolution.pdf

09:30 Helicity-dependent Parton Distribution Functions at NNLO: determination from DIS and SIDIS data and impact of heavy quarks

I discuss MAPPDFpol1.0, a new determination of the helicity-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton from a set of longitudinally polarised inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data. The determination includes, for the first time, next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to both processes, and is carried out in a framework that combines a neural-network parametrisation of PDFs with a Monte Carlo representation of their uncertainties. I discuss the quality of the determination, in particular its dependence on higher-order corrections, on the choice of data set, and on theoretical constraints. I finally assess the impact of charm quark corrections in the computation of theoretical predictions, by extending the FONLL mass scheme to the case of helicity-dependent PDFs.

Speaker: Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

NOCERA_QCDEVOLUTION_2024.pdf

10:00 Numerical implementation for twist-3 PDF evolution equations

I will present our numerical implementations for the evolution equations of twist-3 collinear parton distributions.
I will focus on the challenging aspects that this problem poses compared to the standard twist-2 case, which are mostly due to the intrinsically two-dimensional nature of the support for twist-3 distributions.
I will detail our choices for the discretization procedure, discussing different alternatives contained in the implementations.

Speaker: Simone Rodini

QCD_evolution_2024.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Wednesday: morning / 2

Convener: Jean-Philippe Lansberg (IJCLab- Paris-Saclay U. - CNRS)

11:00 The axial current and its divergence

It is well known that the axial current exhibits the so-called chiral anomaly. The role of this anomaly in the context of the spin sum rule of the nucleon has been intensely discussed soon after the experimental discovery of the spin crisis in the late 1980s. While this field was largely dormant over the last decades, recent work has revived interest in this area. We will discuss perturbative calculations that can shed new light on the role of the axial anomaly in the helicity PDFs and GPDs.

Speaker: Andreas Metz (Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia)

QCD_Evolution_2024.pdf

11:30 Updates on gluon helicity pdf from JAM

Recently, new results on the extraction of gluon helicity PDFs have been presented. These new results provide a comprehensive global analysis involving double spin asymmetries from high-energy polarized jet data, large-x polarized DIS, and recent calculations from LQCD. In this talk, I will provide a summary of the recent findings.

Speaker: Nobuo Sato (Jefferson Lab)

QCD-evolution.pdf

12:00 Factorization for J/psi leptoproduction at small transverse momentum

When quarkonium is produced in the low-transverse momentum region, the contribution of soft and ultra-soft radiation between the heavy-quark pair becomes relevant. At this region, non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) breaks down and we need to promote the long-distance matrix elements to the TMD shape functions (TMDShFs) in the NRQCD factorization procedure. In this talk, I discuss the cross section factorization for the J/ψ leptoproduction in terms of these TMDShFs at small transverse momentum.
I then discuss our results of the TMDShFs at next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling constant, the renormalization group evolution for the TMDShFs and the matching onto the collinear functions at high transverse momentum.

Speaker: Samuel F. Romera (University of the Basque Country)

QCDevol24-SFRomera.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 Wednesday: afternoon / 1

Convener: Mariaelena Boglione (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:30 The perturbative tail of the TMD shape function in SIDIS

Quarkonia are very "handy" objects for the spin-physics community because they can be used to fill up the lack of information on gluon transverse momentum dependent  distributions (TMDs) at energies $Q \lesssim 100$ GeV. In particular, among the different kinds of quarkonia, the $J/\psi$ is definitely the one that attracts the most attention. Nonetheless, its theoretical description is still under debate. Only recently, it has been understood that a correct factorization at small-$q_T$ requires the introduction of novel quantities: the so-called TMD shape functions, which include smearing effects. Within the non-relativistic QCD approach, they can be thought of as a TMD extension of the long-distance matrix elements that are valid at high-$q_T$ (collinear description). Although the TMD shape functions have been initially introduced for hadronic processes, recently their perturbative tails in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering have been determined via a matching procedure.
In this talk I will present such derivation, also including subleading (but non-negligible) terms. I will then discuss the implications of the result, and in particular the presence of a process-induced dependence that spoils the TMD shape function universality. The phenomenological studies presented in this talk could be performed at the future Electron-Ion Collider.

Speaker: Luca Maxia (University of Groningen)

QCDevo2024 - Luca Maxia.pdf

15:00 Spin asymmetries for $C$-even quarkonium production as a probe of gluon distributions

Within the framework of transverse momentum dependent factorization in combination with nonrelativistic QCD, we study charmonium and bottomonium production in hadronic collisions. We focus on quarkonium states with even charge conjugation, for which the color-singlet production mechanism is expected to be dominant in the small transverse momentum region, $q^2_T \ll 4M^2_{c,b}$. It is shown that the distributions of linearly polarized gluons inside unpolarized, longitudinally and transversely polarized protons contribute to the cross sections for scalar and pseudoscalar quarkonia in a very distinctive, parity-dependent way, whereas their effects on higher angular momentum states are strongly suppressed. We present analytical expressions for single and double spin asymmetries, which would allow for the direct extraction of the gluon transverse momentum dependent distributions, mirroring the phenomenological studies of the Drell-Yan processes aimed at the extraction of their quark counterparts. By adopting Gaussian models for the gluon TMDs, which fulfill without saturating everywhere their positivity bounds, we provide numerical predictions for the transverse single-spin asymmetries. These observables could be measured at LHCSpin, the fixed target experiment planned at the LHC.

Speaker: Cristian Pisano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

QCDevo2024-cristian-pisano.pdf

15:30 Towards the transverse SSA for ep → hX at NLO and its connection to ep → gammaX

We present a calculation of the single-spin asymmetry (SSA) for the single-inclusive production of hadrons in collisions of transversely polarized protons
and unpolarized electrons, ep↑ → hX. We compute this transverse spin observable
within the collinear twist-3 factorization approach in perturbative QCD to next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy. Several production channels contribute at NLO and this talk will focus especially on the qg → g channel featuring quark-gluon-quark correlations inside the proton and the fragmentation of a gluon to the observed hadron. This channel is closely related to the similar process ep↑ → gammaX and we show how its transverse SSA can be obtained from the qg → g channel. Finally we show some numerical estimates for ep↑ → gammaX at a future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)

Speaker: Daniel Rein (Universität Tübingen)

rein_pavia24.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Wednesday: afternoon / 2

Convener: Matteo Cerutti (Hampton University and Jefferson Lab)

16:30 A study of TMD evolution effect on $cos2\phi$ azimuthal asymmetry in a back-to-back $J/\psi$-jet production at the EIC

A back-to-back semi-inclusive $J/\psi + jet$ production is a promising process to study gluon transverse momentum distribution (TMDs) at the future electron-ion collider (EIC). A back-to-back configuration allows a higher transverse momentum for $J/\psi$. We present an extension of a previous work where we studied $cos2\phi$ azimuthal asymmetry within the TMD factorization framework. We present the effect of TMD evolution on the asymmetry in two approaches that differ in the parameterization of the perturbative tails of the TMDs and the non-perturbative factors. We found that the asymmetry increases with the total outgoing transverse momentum, however, it decreases with the transverse momentum of $J/\psi$ or the jet. We investigated the uncertainty coming from the parameterizations of the non-perturbative Sudakov factors in the larger $b_T$ region, which we found to be sensitive to the contributions from the non-perturbative region, influencing the asymmetry significantly.

Speaker: Raj Kishore (University of Basque Country)

QCDEvolution2024.pdf

17:00 Double-Spin Asymmetries in Polarized p+p Collisions and kT Factorization at Small x

Double spin asymmetries for particle and jet productions in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions have been the flagship measurements at RHIC to study proton’s spin content originating from gluons. Conventional theoretical framework used to extract gluons’ helicity distribution relies on the collinear factorization framework which is applicable primarily when there exists a large external momentum. In this talk, I will discuss a transverse momentum dependent framework developed to be applicable at small x and derived a formula for the double-spin asymmetry of gluon productions at the central rapidity region of p+p collisions. The formula is projectile and target symmetric. Expressed in a kT factorized form, the formula involves a convolution of the gluon helicity TMDs and twist-3 helicity-flip TMDs originating from both the projectile and the target. It is further argued that small x evolution can be effectively included by evolving these TMDs in the double logarithmic approximation.

Speaker: Ming Li (The Ohio State University)

A_LL@small_x_and_kT_Factorization.pdf

17:30 Parton shower algorithm based on the small-x evolution equation

We develop a novel parton shower algorithm based on the Gribov-Levin-Ryskin (GLR) evolution equation incorporating the gluon fusion effect to simulate the small- gluon cascade. The formulations of both forward and backward evolution for the GLR equation are presented in our work, and the results from the Monte Carlo implementation of the GLR equation are in complete agreement with its numerical solutions. It provides a vital tool to describe fully exclusive hadronic final states in collisions at the future electron-ion collider. This work thus paves the way for developing an event generator that embodies the saturation effect.

Speaker: Yu Shi

QCD_evolution2024.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Social dinner

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Thursday, 30 May

09:00 → 10:30 Thursday: morning / 1

Convener: Lorenzo Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:00 One-loop evolution of twist-2 generalized parton distributions

In this talk, I will revisit the evolution of generalised parton distributions (GPDs) at leading order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ for all of the twist-2 quark and gluon operators. I will present a rederivation of the one-loop evolution kernels, expressing them in a form suitable for implementation, and check analytically that some basic properties, such as DGLAP/ERBL limits and polynomiality conservation, are fulfilled. I will also present a number of numerical results obtained with a public implementation of the evolution in the library APFEL++ and available within the PARTONS framework.

Speaker: Dr Valerio Bertone (CEA Paris-Sclay)

bertone_QCDEvolution_26_05_2024.pdf

09:30 Phenomenology of GPDs with lattice QCD and experimental data

I will present the limits and complementarity of GPD phenomenology using simultaneously lattice QCD, experimental data and theoretical models. I will point out how none of the three can convey a satisfactory picture alone as of now, but explore collectively complementary information. I will stress the crucial role of evolution in the uncertainties on the lattice, the modeling of GPDs at small x and in the deconvolution problem from experimental data.

Speaker: Herve Dutrieux (William & Mary)

Presentation_2024_05_30__QCD_Evolution.pdf

10:00 State-of-the-art of observables for Generalized TMDs

In this presentation, we provide an overview of Generalized Transverse Momentum Dependent Distributions (GTMDs) of hadrons, recognized as the most comprehensive two-parton correlation functions. We discuss recent advancements in this field, emphasizing the state-of-the-art observables for these quantities and their significant implications for the field of spin physics.

Speaker: Shohini Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

QCDEvolution24_SB.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Thursday: morning / 2

Convener: Swagato Mukherjee (Assistant Physicist)

11:00 New insights on flavor dependence in TMD extractions from global fits

In this talk, we present the latest results by the MAP Collaboration about the extraction of unpolarized quark Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distributions (TMD PDFs) and Fragmentation Functions (TMD FFs) from global fits of Drell-Yan and Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) data sets. In particular, we discuss the impact of the introduction of flavour dependence in the nonperturbative models. We obtain significant deviations of the shape of the extracted TMDs among different quarks, suggesting that the 3D momentum distribution of quarks inside the proton depends on the flavour.

Speaker: Matteo Cerutti (Hampton University and Jefferson Lab)

QCDevo.pdf

11:30 Meson structures through collinear and transverse momentum dependent distributions

Pions and kaons play an important role in QCD, as they are the pseudo-Goldstone bosons of chiral symmetry breaking while also being confined systems of quarks and gluons. Recent works on pion structures through the JAM framework introduce both Drell-Yan (DY) and leading neutron (LN) electroproduction observables to constrain parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion. By making use of the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization, additional transverse momentum dependent DY observables led to the first simultaneous determination of both the collinear and TMD PDF in the pion. Through the knowledge of the pion PDFs, we introduce observables from the NA3 experiment which are ratios of kaon-induced DY cross sections to pion-induced DY cross sections in order to constrain kaon PDFs. We look forward to future experiments from the potential JLab 22 GeV upgrade, EIC, and COMPASS and AMBER at CERN.

Speaker: Patrick Barry (Argonne National Lab)

Barry_QCD_Evolution_2024.pdf

12:00 A first implementation of the HSO approach to TMD phenomenology

We present a first practical implementation of a recently proposed hadron structure oriented (HSO) approach to TMD phenomenology applied to Drell-Yan like processes, including lepton pair production at moderate $Q^2$ and $Z^0$ boson production. We emphasize the HSO's preservation of a basic TMD parton-model-like framework even while accounting for full TMD factorization and evolution. We argue that moderate $Q$ measurements should be given greater weight than high $Q$ measurements in extractions of nonperturbative transverse momentum dependence.

Speaker: Jose Osvaldo Gonzalez Hernandez (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

QCD_EVO_May-27-31_2024.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 lunch break

14:30 → 16:00 Thursday: afternoon / 1

Convener: Andrea Signori (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:30 Transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons within a jet in unpolarized hadronic collisions

After recalling the latest extractions of the $\Lambda$ polarizing fragmentation functions within a TMD approach from fits to $e^+e^-$ data, I will present theoretical estimates for the spontaneous transverse polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons produced in unpolarized $pp$ collisions inside a jet. For the latter, transverse momentum effects are included only in the fragmentation mechanism. These predictions will be then compared against preliminary STAR results.
Special attention will be paid to the universality properties of the quark polarizing fragmentation function and, for the first time, to the role and size of its gluon counterpart.

Speaker: Umberto D'Alesio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

PTLam_ppjet_DAlesio_QCD24.pdf

PTLam_ppjet_DAlesio_QCD24.pptx

15:00 Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries and the Universal Nature of Transversity PDFs and Nucleon Tensor Charges

I will report on recent QCD global analyses of transverse single-spin asymmetries involving two different approaches: transverse momentum dependent (TMD)/collinear twist-3 (CT3) observables involving single-hadron FFs, and twist-2 collinear observables involving dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFFs). A byproduct of these studies is the extraction of the transversity PDFs and calculation of the nucleon tensor charges. I will discuss new developments in the theory and phenomenology of DiFFs in determining the transversity PDFs and examine their compatibility with the TMD/CT3 approach as well as lattice QCD computations of the nucleon tensor charges.

Speakers: Daniel Pitonyak (Lebanon Valley College), Daniel Pitonyak (Lebanon Valley College)

Pitonyak_QCDEvo2024.pdf

15:30 Description of Collins asymmetries in e+e- annihilation with a Monte Carlo event generator

The string+3P0 model of hadronization has been recently applied to the fragmentation of a string stretched between a quark-antiquark pair with correlated spin states. The pair is assumed to be created in e+e- annihilation via the exchange of a virtual photon. To perform simulations of e+e- events, the model has been implemented in the Pythia Monte Carlo event generator by extending the StringSpinner package.
Using StringSpinner, we have performed simulations of e+e- events at the center of mass energy of 10.6 GeV. The obtained results for the Collins asymmetries for back-to-back hadrons as well as their comparison with data from the Belle and BaBar collaborations are discussed.

Speaker: Albi Kerbizi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Kerbizi_QCDE2024.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Thursday: afternoon / 2

Convener: Filippo Delcarro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:30 Nuclear effects on transverse momentum dependent Drell Yan production in pA

The Drell-Yan process is essential for the determination of the collinear and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution function. For a nuclear target, in addition to the non-perturbative parton structure that is intrinsically different from that of a free nucleon, there are dynamical nuclear matter effects that modify the TMD cross section in proton-nucleus ($pA$) collisions. Perturbatively, they arise from forward scatterings between proton-collinear partons and the nuclear medium before the hard process. We study explicitly the opacity-one nuclear corrections to the TMD Drell-Yan cross section up to next-to-leading order. We find that the associated collinear and rapidity divergences lead to i) an in-medium renormalization group equation that encodes parton energy loss, and ii) a Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov evolution equation for the forward scattering cross-section. I will discuss the connection of this work to earlier studies and phenomenological applications.

Speaker: Weiyao Ke (Central China Normal University)

QCDEvo2024-WK.pdf

17:00 Perturbative $T$-odd asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process revisited

I will present a calculation of perturbative $T$-odd contributions to the lepton angular distribution in the Drell-Yan process. The talk is based on work done with Valery Lyubovitskij, Werner Vogelsang, and Alexey Zhevlakov; the corresponding pre-print is available under $\texttt{arXiv:2403.18741}$.

Using collinear factorization, we worked at the first order in QCD perturbation theory where these contributions appear, ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$, and address both $W^\pm$ and $\gamma/Z^0$ boson exchange. A major focus of our calculation is on the regime where the boson's transverse momentum $Q_T$ is much smaller than its mass $Q$. We carefully expanded our results up to next-to-next-to-leading power in $Q_T/Q$. Our calculation provides a benchmark for studies of $T$-odd contributions that employ transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions. In the neutral-current case we compare our results for the $T$-odd structure functions to available ATLAS data.

Speaker: Fabian Wunder (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Fabian_Wunder_QCD-Evolution_Pavia_2024.pdf

17:30 A semi-analytical $x$-space solution for parton evolution

I will present a novel semi-analytical method for parton evolution. The talk is based on work done with co-authors Oliver Schüle and Fabian Wunder, the corresponding preprint is $\texttt{arXiv:2404.18667}$.

The presented method is based on constructing a family of analytic functions spanning $x$-space which is closed under the considered evolution equation. Using these functions as a basis, the original integro-differential evolution equation transforms into a system of coupled ordinary differential equations, which can be solved numerically by restriction to a suitably chosen finite subsystem. The evolved distributions are obtained as analytic functions in $x$ with numerically obtained coefficients, providing insight into the analytic behavior of the evolved parton distributions.
As a proof-of-principle, we applied our method to the leading order non-singlet and singlet DGLAP equation. Comparing our results to traditional Mellin-space methods, we found good agreement. The method has been implemented in the code $\texttt{POMPOM}$ in $\texttt{Mathematica}$ as well as in $\texttt{Python}$.

Speaker: Juliane Haug (Universität Tübingen)

POMPOM_Juliane_Haug_QCD_Evolution_2024.pdf

Friday, 31 May

09:00 → 10:30 Friday: morning / 1

Convener: Marco Radici (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:00 Simultaneous Bayesian reweighting of TMDs

We present an extension of the Bayesian reweighting procedure to the case of multiple independent extractions of TMDs from SIDIS and $e^+e^-$ data, namely the quark Sivers, transversity and Collins TMD functions. The reweighting is performed using $A_N$ data measured in $p^\uparrow p \to \pi X$ collisions at RHIC. The agreement with $A_N$ data at large-$x_F$ values, a kinematical region complementary to those explored in SIDIS measurements, is enhanced, improving the knowledge of the polarized quark TMDs in the large-$x$ region.

Speaker: Dr Carlo Flore (Università di Torino e INFN, Sezione di Torino)

Simultaneous-reweighting-QCDevo2024.pdf

09:30 New insights on DIS factorization at threshold

Deep Inelastic Scattering at large Bjorken $x$ provides an interesting and unique framework to test modern factorization techniques. Although this topic has been widely discussed in the past within the context of effective theories, a consistent treatment in full QCD still faces issues regarding the treatment of rapidity divergences, subtractions, and the role played by soft radiation. In this talk, I will present a factorization theorem for DIS in the threshold region valid in full QCD addressing in detail the subtleties involved in the separation of the various contributions. I will also point out strong analogies and similarities between Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) factorization, offering a new appealing perspective that might open the path for a global study of hadronization effects involving different observables.

Speaker: Andrea Simonelli

QCD_evo24_Simonelli_240531_084905.pdf

10:00 Factorization of ep diffraction

Diffractive processes are events with large rapidity gaps, which typically comprise a double-digit percent of events at colliders and are important for small-$x$ physics. We present a comprehensive factorization of $ep$ diffraction, using effective field theory. We show that there are four nontrivial unpolarized diffractive structure functions at leading power, including the conventional $F_2^D$ and $F_L^D$, as well as two large less-studied structures. We compare and contrast the factorization with traditional choices for global fits, including Collins’ hard-scattering formula with diffractive PDFs (dPDFs) and the Ingelman-Schlein model. We provide model-independent perturbative predictions for ratios of structure functions, for both coherent and incoherent diffraction. For the incoherent case, these predictions hold regardless of how many color channels contribute, and hence can be tested experimentally, even if it is difficult to isolate pure color-singlet exchange.

Speaker: Stella Schindler

schindler-diffraction.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Friday: morning / 2

Convener: Cristian Pisano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:00 First Results on Deeply Virtual Exclusive Experiments from the EXCLAIM collaboration

Understanding the 3D quark-gluon structure of nucleons is entering an era of precision, which is furthered by the 12 GeV upgrade at Jefferson Lab and the upcoming EIC. I will give an overview of the work done by the EXCLusives via Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning (Exclaim) collaboration, an interdisciplinary effort by ML experts, nuclear theorists and experimentalists centered around building physics informed deep-learning architectures, which utilize new experimental data and first-principle lattice QCD calculations in order to access the 3D structure of matter. Our approach offers a benchmarking framework for studying various Deeply Virtual Exclusive Scattering processes and extracting Compton Form Factors and Generalized Parton Distributions.

Speaker: Marija Marija Čuić

Cuic_Pavia_2024.pdf

11:30 String-based parametrization of nucleon GPDs at any skewness: a comparison to lattice QCD

We introduce a string-based parametrization for nucleon quark and gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) that effectively handles all skewness values. Our approach leverages conformal moments, representing them as the sum of spin-j nucleon A-form and skewness-dependent spin-j nucleon D-form factor, derived from t-channel string exchange in AdS spaces. This model-independent framework, satisfying the polynomiality condition, uses Mellin moments of empirical parton distribution functions (PDFs) to estimate these form factors. With just five Regge slope parameters, our method accurately produces various nucleon quark GPD types and symmetric nucleon gluon GPDs through Mellin-Barnes integrals. Our isovector nucleon quark GPD aligns with existing lattice data, promising to improve the empirical extraction and global analysis of nucleon GPDs in exclusive processes by avoiding the de-convolution challenge.

Speaker: Kiminad Mamo (William and Mary/JLab)

12:00 Wilson loop correlators

Particular gluon transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs and GTMDs) become Wilson loop correlators in the limit of small x. In this talk I will discuss the consequences of this and what happens under evolution.

Speaker: Daniel Boer (University of Groningen)

QCD evolution-May2024-final.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 End of workshop