Numerical Study of MRW-Type Unintegrated Double Parton Distribution Functions from Non-Factorized DPDFs

TL;DR

This paper presents a numerical analysis of unintegrated double parton distribution functions derived from non-factorized collinear DPDFs, exploring various prescriptions for transverse momentum dependence and their effects on distributions.

Contribution

It introduces and compares new MRW-inspired methods for generating transverse momentum dependence in double parton distributions, avoiding piecewise treatment of the conventional approach.

Findings

DMKMRW preserves normalization by construction.

DVO-MRW shows normalization deviations, corrected in the matched version.

Non-factorized effects vary by channel and are most significant near the kinematic boundary.

Abstract

Double parton scattering provides a sensitive probe of multi parton correlations inside hadrons. In this work we present a numerical study of unintegrated double parton distribution functions constructed from non-factorized collinear DPDFs. As input we use the GS09 DPDFs and evolve them to unequal scales with a numerical double DGLAP evolution framework, which is validated through the corresponding momentum sum rule. We investigate MRW-inspired prescriptions for generating transverse momentum dependence in the double parton case. In particular, we study the double modified KMRW approach (DMKMRW), the double virtuality ordered MRW (DVO-MRW) model, and a normalization-matched version of the latter. These prescriptions can be applied directly to the full collinear DPDF, including its non-homogeneous component, and avoid the piecewise treatment required in the conventional LO-MRW construction. We analyze the normalization, transverse momentum dependence, flavor dependence, and sensitivity to longitudinal DPDF correlations of the resulting distributions. The DMKMRW model is normalization preserving by construction, while the DVO-MRW model shows nontrivial normalization deviations that are removed in the matched version. Non-factorized effects are strongly channel dependent: in DMKMRW they enter mainly through longitudinal DPDF correlations, whereas in the virtuality ordered models they also modify the transverse momentum shape. The largest deviations occur near the double parton kinematic boundary and in channels affected by valence-number and quark-antiquark correlations.