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Connected and Disconnected Sea Partons from CT18 Parametrization of PDFs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The separation of the connected and disconnected sea partons, which were uncovered in the Euclidean path-integral formulation of the hadronic tensor, is accommodated with an alternative parametrization of the non-perturbative parton distribution functions in the CT18 global analysis. This is achieved with the help of the distinct small xx behaviours of these two sea partons and the constraint from the lattice calculation of the ratio of the strange momentum fraction to that of the uˉ\bar u or dˉ\bar d in the disconnected insertion. The whole dataset of CT18 is used in this CT18CS fit. The impact of the recent SeaQuest data on the dˉ(x)uˉ(x)\bar{d}(x)-\bar{u}(x) distribution of CT18CS is also discussed. The separate momentum fractions for the valence, the connected sea and disconnected sea of uu and dd, the strange and the gluon partons are presented at μ=1.3\mu =1.3 GeV for the first time. They can be compared term-by-term with systematic error controlled lattice calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2206.02431,
  title  = {Connected and Disconnected Sea Partons from CT18 Parametrization of PDFs},
  author = {Tie-Jiun Hou and Mengshi Yan and Jian Liang and Keh-Fei Liu and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02431},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Revised manuscript accepted for publication in PRD