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PDF in PDFs from Hadronic Tensor and LaMET

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-10-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We point out a problem of the phenomenological definition of the valence partons as the difference between the partons and antipartons in the context of the NNLO evolution equations. After demonstrating that the classification of the parton degrees of freedom (PDF) of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) are the same in the QCD path-intergral formulations of the hadronic tensor and the quasi-PDF with LaMET, we resolve the problem by showing that the proper definition of the valence should be in terms of those in the connected insertions only. We also prove that the strange partons appear as the disconnected sea in the nucleon.

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@article{arxiv.2007.15075,
  title  = {PDF in PDFs from Hadronic Tensor and LaMET},
  author = {Keh-Fei Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.15075},
  year   = {2020}
}

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