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hep-ph2025

Unveiling the Collins-Soper kernel in inclusive DIS at threshold

Andrea Simonelli, Alberto Accardi, Matteo Cerutti +2

We revisit the factorization of inclusive deep inelastic scattering near the kinematic threshold to explicitly track off-lightcone effects. Particle production develops around two…

hep-ph2026

Symbolic Extraction of Non-Perturbative Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distributions from Drell-Yan Data

Cole Granger, Alessandro Bacchetta, Valerio Bertone +6

We present an analytical parametrization of the non-perturbative transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton distribution function of unpolarized quarks, extracted from Drell-Yan da…

hep-ph2025

An extraction of the Collins-Soper kernel from a joint analysis of experimental and lattice data

Artur Avkhadiev, Valerio Bertone, Chiara Bissolotti +6

We present a first joint extraction of the Collins-Soper kernel (CSK) combining experimental and lattice QCD data in the context of an analysis of transverse-momentum-dependent dis…

hep-ph2024

Systematic uncertainty of offshell corrections and higher-twist contribution in DIS at large x

Matteo Cerutti, Alberto Accardi, Ishara P. Fernando +1

We study the systematic uncertainty and biases introduced by theoretical assumptions needed to include large- DIS data in a global QCD analysis. Working in the CTEQ-JLab framewo…

hep-ph2024

Exploring the three-dimensional momentum distribution of longitudinally polarized quarks in the proton

Alessandro Bacchetta, Alessia Bongallino, Matteo Cerutti +2

By analyzing experimental data on semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off longitudinally polarized targets, we extract the transverse momentum dependence of the quark helicity…

hep-ph2022

Unpolarized Transverse Momentum Distributions from a global fit of Drell-Yan and Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering data

Alessandro Bacchetta, Valerio Bertone, Chiara Bissolotti +5

We present an extraction of unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions based on more than two thousands data points from several expe…

hep-ph2026

A first extraction of gluon TMDs from Higgs data at the LHC

Simone Anedda, Valerio Bertone, Giuseppe Bozzi +1

We present the first extraction of the unpolarised gluon transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) parton distribution from Higgs-boson production data at the LHC within the framework of…

hep-ph2022

Extraction of Pion Transverse Momentum Distributions from Drell-Yan data

Matteo Cerutti, Lorenzo Rossi, Simone Venturini +4

We map the distribution of unpolarized quarks inside a unpolarized pion as a function of the quark's transverse momentum, encoded in unpolarized Transverse Momentum Distributions (…

hep-ph2026

New insights from the flavor dependence of quark transverse momentum distributions in the pion

Lorenzo Rossi, Alessandro Bacchetta, Matteo Cerutti +1

We update our previous extraction of transverse momentum distributions of unpolarized quarks in the pion by implementing a more comprehensive description of theoretical uncertainti…

hep-ph2026

The impact of prescriptions in phenomenological extractions of Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions

Matteo Cerutti, Andrea Simonelli

We investigate the impact of phenomenological prescriptions in the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) approach for global extractions of Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs). We show…

hep-ph2026

Neural-Network extraction of TMDs with SIDIS data

Matteo Cerutti

A first global analysis of unpolarized Transverse-Momentum-Dependent (TMD) distributions based on a neural-network (NN) parametrization is presented. Drell-Yan (DY) and semi-inclus…

hep-ph2026

CJ26 Global QCD Analysis with Large- Jefferson Lab 6 and 12 GeV Data

Alberto Accardi, Matteo Cerutti, Cynthia E. Keppel +4

We present CJ26, the new CTEQ-JLab global QCD analysis that incorporates for the first time the complete suite of JLab 6 GeV DIS measurements and the first published JLab 12 GeV me…

hep-ph2024

Signals of strong parity violation in deep inelastic scattering

Alessandro Bacchetta, Matteo Cerutti, Ludovico Manna +2

We include strong parity-violating contributions to inclusive deep inelastic scattering (DIS) of longitudinally polarized leptons off an unpolarized target. At variance with standa…

nucl-ex2025

Study of SIDIS Unpolarized Cross Sections from a He Target with the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device at JLab

Matteo Cerutti, Jian-Ping Chen, Umberto D'Alesio +7

In this paper we present a detailed impact study of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering unpolarized cross sections' measurements using the proposed SoLID apparatus at Jefferso…

hep-ph2025

A Neural-Network Extraction of Unpolarised Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distributions

Alessandro Bacchetta, Valerio Bertone, Chiara Bissolotti +4

We present the first extraction of transverse-momentum-dependent distributions of unpolarised quarks from experimental Drell-Yan data using neural networks to parametrise their non…

hep-ph2024

Flavor dependence of unpolarized quark Transverse Momentum Distributions from a global fit

Alessandro Bacchetta, Valerio Bertone, Chiara Bissolotti +6

We present an extraction of the unpolarized transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions that takes into account possible differences between quark…

hep-ph2025

Systematic uncertainties from higher-twist corrections in DIS at large x

Matteo Cerutti, Alberto Accardi, Ishara P. Fernando +3

We investigate the systematic uncertainties and potential biases arising from the inclusion of large- corrections to proton and deuteron deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data in…

hep-ph2025

Robust extraction of power corrections and nuclear dynamics from DIS at large

Alberto Accardi, Matteo Cerutti

We present recent updates from the CTEQ-JLab (CJ) global PDF analysis, focusing on the interplay and implementation systematics of the HT and offshell correction (CJ22ht). We also…

hep-ph2024

Extraction of the neutron F2 structure function from inclusive proton and deuteron deep-inelastic scattering data

Shujie Li, Alberto Accardi, Matteo Cerutti +7

The available world deep-inelastic scattering data on proton and deuteron structure functions F2p, F2d, and their ratios, are leveraged to extract the free neutron F2n structure fu…

hep-ph2025

Extraction of Dihadron Fragmentation Functions at NNLO with and without Neural Networks

Virgile Mahaut, Luca Polano, Alessandro Bacchetta +4

We present a new extraction of unpolarized Dihadron Fragmentation Functions, which describe the probability density for an unpolarized parton to fragment into a pair. O…