Origins of parton correlations in nucleon and multi-parton collisions

We demonstrate that perturbative QCD leads to positive 3D parton–parton correlations inside nucleon explaining a factor two enhancement of the cross section of multi-parton interactions observed at Tevatron at $x_i\ge 0.01$ as compared to the predictions of the independent parton approximation. We also find that though perturbative correlations decrease with $x$ decreasing, the nonperturbative mechanism kicks in and should generate correlation which, at $x$ below ${10}^{-3}$, is comparable in magnitude with the perturbative one for $x\sim 0.01$.