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 0.06fm and 0.08fm and pion masses down to mπ∼150MeV. Our result for the second Gegenbauer coefficient is a2=0.1364(154)(145) and for the width parameter ⟨ξ2⟩=0.2361(41)(39). Both numbers refer to the scale μ=2GeVin the 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.
@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}
}
Comments
Contribution to the proceedings of QCD Evolution 2015, 26-30 May 2015, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, USA