Comment on "Single-inclusive jet production in electron-nucleon collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD" [Phys. Lett. B 763, 52--59 (2016)]
arXiv:1701.08214 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.033
Abstract
In the cross section for single-inclusive jet production in electron-nucleon collisions, the distribution of a quark in an electron appears at next-to-next-to-leading order. The numerical calculations in Ref. [1] were carried out using a perturbative approximation for the distribution of a quark in an electron. We point out that that distribution receives nonperturbative QCD contributions that invalidate the perturbative approximation. Those nonperturbative effects enter into cross sections for hard-scattering processes through resolved-electron contributions and can be taken into account by determining the distribution of a quark in an electron phenomenologically.
5 pages, minor corrections, version published in Physics Letters B