Exploring the Deep Infrared Behavior of QCD through Transverse Momentum Dependent Distributions

7 May 2026, 09:30
20m
Sala IMPERIALE B. (Hotel Carlton)

Sala IMPERIALE B.

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG5 Spin and 3D Structure WG5 Spin and 3D-structure

Speaker

Andrea Simonelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) parton densities are well-defined QCD operators, however their determination remains challenging due to the dominance of non-perturbative effects at low energy scales. As a consequence, the impact of phenomenological modeling is difficult to control and may lead to a misinterpretation of the information carried by experimental data.
In this talk, the most commonly adopted strategies are reviewed and critically analyzed, and a novel approach based on analytic resummation is proposed. Within this framework, the non-perturbative structure of hadrons is traced back to more fundamental properties of QCD, such as the infrared behavior of the strong coupling and of the collinear parton densities.

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Author

Andrea Simonelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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