TMD Soft Function from Large-Momentum Effective Theory

Understand

We study Euclidean formulations of the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function, which is a cross section for soft gluon radiations involving color charges moving in two conjugate lightcone directions in quantum chromodynamics.

• We show it is related to a special form factor of a pair of color sources traveling with nearly-lightlike velocities, which can be matched to TMD physical observables in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan process in the framework of large momentum effective theory.
• It can also be extracted by combining a large-momentum form factor of light meson and its leading TMD wave function.
• These formulations are useful for initiating nonperturbative calculations of this useful quantity.