Evolution of transverse-momentum-dependent densities

Abstract

We discuss different operator definitions of the transverse-momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities from the point of view of their renormalization-group (RG) properties and UV evolution. We also consider the structure of the gauge links (Wilson lines) in these operator definitions and examine the role of the soft factor in the factorization formula within the TMD approach to semi-inclusive processes.

Comments: 4 pages. Invited talk presented at the INT Program "Gluons and the quark sea at high energies: distributions, polarization, tomography", 13 Sep - 19 Nov 2010 Seattle (WA), USA