Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2018

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.98.114005

Publication Title

Physical Review D

Volume

98

Issue

11

Pages

114005 (10 pages)

Abstract

We survey the current phenomenological status of semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering at moderate hard scales and in the limit of very large transverse momentum. As the transverse momentum becomes comparable to or larger than the overall hard scale, the differential cross sections should be calculable with fixed order perturbative QCD (pQCD) methods, while small transverse momentum (transverse-momentum-dependent factorization) approximations should eventually break down. We find large disagreement between HERMES and COMPASS data and fixed order calculations done with modern parton densities, even in regions of kinematics where such calculations should be expected to be very accurate. Possible interpretations are suggested.

Comments

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

Original Publication Citation

Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. O., Rogers, T. C., Sato, N., & Wang, B. (2018). Challenges with large transverse momentum in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering. Physical Review D, 98(11). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.114005

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