Neutral and charged current semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering at NNLO QCD
A bstract Semi-inclusive hadron production in deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering (SIDIS) provides important probes of parton distributions and fragmentation functions. We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) massless QCD corrections to the full set of SIDIS coefficient functions in analytical form, accounting for electroweak neutral current and charged current exchange. Focusing on the kinematical setting of SIDIS measurements at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), we quantify the impact of these corrections on the phenomenological predictions and their associated uncertainties. We study the impact of electroweak interference in the neutral current SIDIS process and investigate lepton polarisation asymmetries designed to enhance the sensitivity on charged current SIDIS.
Authors
- Kay Schönwald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-5434)
- Markus Löchner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8717-1193)
- Giovanni Stagnitto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9513-5914)
- T. Gehrmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7009-432X)
- Leonardo Bonino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0759-488X)
Institutions
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano Bicocca (IT)
- University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2025)016
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 13.09
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- University of Washington
- European Commission
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung