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Nucleon Tomography and Generalized Parton Distribution at Physical Pion Mass from Lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present the first lattice calculation of the nucleon isovector unpolarized generalized parton distribution (GPD) at the physical pion mass using a lattice ensemble with 2+1+1 flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ) generated by MILC Collaboration, with lattice spacing a0.09a\approx 0.09~fm and volume 643×9664^3\times 96. We use momentum-smeared sources to improve the signal at nucleon boost momentum Pz2.2P_z \approx 2.2 GeV, and report results at nonzero momentum transfers in [0.2,1.0] GeV2[0.2,1.0]\text{ GeV}^2. Nonperturbative renormalization in RI/MOM scheme is used to obtain the quasi-distribution before matching to the lightcone GPDs. The three-dimensional distributions H(x,Q2)H(x,Q^2) and E(x,Q2)E(x,Q^2) at ξ=0\xi=0 are presented, along with the three-dimensional nucleon tomography and impact-parameter--dependent distribution for selected Bjorken xx at μ=3\mu=3 GeV in MS\overline{\text{MS}} scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12474,
  title  = {Nucleon Tomography and Generalized Parton Distribution at Physical Pion Mass from Lattice QCD},
  author = {Huey-Wen Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12474},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Typos fixed. Removed data using twisted-boundary conditions