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Complete Matching for Quasi-distribution Functions in Large Momentum Effective Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We complete the procedure of extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) using large momentum effective theory (LaMET) at leading power accuracy in the hadron momentum. We derive a general factorization formula for the quasi PDFs in the presence of mixing, and give the corresponding hard matching kernel at O(αs)\mathcal O(\alpha_s), both for the unpolarized and for the polarized quark and gluon quasi-PDFs. Our calculation is performed in a regularization-independent momentum subtraction scheme. The results allow us to match the nonperturbatively renormalized quasi-PDFs to normal PDFs in the presence of mixing, and therefore can be used to extract flavor-singlet quark PDFs as well as gluon PDFs from lattice simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00978,
  title  = {Complete Matching for Quasi-distribution Functions in Large Momentum Effective Theory},
  author = {Wei Wang and Jian-Hui Zhang and Shuai Zhao and Ruilin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00978},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

29 pages, 5 figures. Errors in Eq. (90) are corrected