In this work we continue our effort to explore a recent proposal, which allows light-cone distributions to be extracted from purely spatial correlations, being thus accessible to lattice methods. In order to test the feasibility of this method, we present our latest results from a twisted mass lattice calculation of the flavor non-singlet momentum, helicity and transversity distributions of the nucleon. Furthermore, we apply a newly proposed momentum improved smearing, which has the potential to reach higher nucleon momenta as required for a safe matching procedure to the physical distribution functions.
@article{arxiv.1612.08728,
title = {Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD with Momentum Smearing},
author = {Constantia Alexandrou and Krzysztof Cichy and Martha Constantinou and Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou and Karl Jansen and Fernanda Steffens and Christian Wiese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08728},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures, talk given at the 34th annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 24-30 July 2016, University of Southampton, UK. Revision: Added further references and moved acknowledgements to the back