https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2006-02554-2
Theoretical Physics
The construction of gauge-links in arbitrary hard processes
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* e-mail: cbomhof@nat.vu.nl
Received:
23
January
2006
Published online:
19
May
2006
Transverse momentum dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions are described by hadronic matrix elements of bilocal products of field operators off the light-cone. These bilocal products contain gauge-links, as required by gauge-invariance. The gauge-links are path-ordered exponentials connecting the field operators along a certain integration path. This integration path is process-dependent, depending specifically on the short-distance partonic subprocess. In this paper we present the technical details needed in the calculation of the gauge-links, and a calculational scheme is provided to obtain the gauge invariant distribution and fragmentation correlators corresponding to a given partonic subprocess.
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