Hybrid high-energy factorization and evolution at NLO
Pre-published on:
December 15, 2025
Published on:
January 28, 2026
Abstract
A scheme for NLO computations of generic observables in hadron collisions is presented within hybrid factorization, that is the framework of high-energy factorization with one off-shell and one on-shell initial-state parton. The ambiguity of projectile-target separation in the high-energy limit is governed by the Collins-Soper scale $\mu_Y$. The NLO unintegrated PDF is constructed in terms of collinear PDFs, and its $\mu_Y$-evolution reproduces the Collins-Soper-Sterman equation in the TMD limit of $|k_{\scriptscriptstyle\perp}|\ll \mu_Y$. BFKL-Collins-Ellis evolution of the Green's function in the UPDF takes care of the resummation of high-energy logarithms.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.512.0038
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