Transverse parton distribution and fragmentation functions at NNLO: the gluon case

Abstract

Abstract We calculate in this paper the perturbative gluon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) and fragmentation functions (TMDFFs) using the exponential regulator for rapidity divergences. We obtain results for both unpolarized and linearly polarized distributions through next-to-next-to leading order in strong coupling constant, and through O $$ \mathcal{O} $$ (ϵ 2) in dimensional regulator. We find a nontrivial momentum conservation sum rule for the linearly polarized component for both TMDPDFs and TMDFFs in the N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 super-Yang-Mills theory. The TMDFFs are used to calculate the two-loop gluon jet function for the energy-energy correlator in Higgs gluonic decay in the back-to-back limit.

Keywords

• Perturbative QCD
• Effective Field Theories
• Resummation