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Pion Distribution Amplitude from Lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-10-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We have calculated the second moment of the pion light-cone distribution amplitude using two flavors of dynamical (clover) fermions on lattices of different volumes, lattice spacings between 0.06fm0.06 \, \mathrm {fm} and 0.08fm0.08 \, \mathrm {fm} and pion masses down to mπ150MeVm_\pi\sim 150 \, \mathrm {MeV}. Our result for the second Gegenbauer coefficient is a2=0.1364(154)(145)a_2 = 0.1364(154)(145) and for the width parameter ξ2=0.2361(41)(39)\langle \xi^2 \rangle = 0.2361(41)(39). Both numbers refer to the scale μ=2GeV\mu=2 \, \mathrm {GeV}in the MS\overline{\text{MS}} scheme, the first error is statistical including the uncertainty of the chiral extrapolation, and the second error is the estimated uncertainty coming from the nonperturbatively determined renormalization factors.

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@article{arxiv.1510.07429,
  title  = {Pion Distribution Amplitude from Lattice QCD},
  author = {V. M. Braun and S. Collins and M. Göckeler and P. Pérez-Rubio and A. Schäfer and R. W. Schiel and A. Sternbeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07429},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Contribution to the proceedings of QCD Evolution 2015, 26-30 May 2015, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, USA

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