Recent results on unintegrated parton distributions

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in unintegrated parton distributions, focusing on their application in Monte Carlo simulations of high-energy collider events and efforts to precisely define them via nonlocal operators.

Contribution

It presents new insights into the use of u-pdf's in simulations and explores methods to characterize them with greater precision.

Findings

Improved Monte Carlo simulation techniques incorporating u-pdf's.

Progress in defining u-pdf's through nonlocal operator matrix elements.

Enhanced understanding of unintegrated parton distributions' role in high-energy physics.

Abstract

We summarize recent results on i) the use of u-pdf's in the Monte-Carlo simulation of hadronic final states at high-energy colliders, and ii) attempts to characterize u-pdf's with precision in terms of nonlocal operator matrix elements.