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Resummation for Lattice QCD Calculation of Generalized Parton Distributions at Nonzero Skewness

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-07-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) provides an approach to directly calculate the xx-dependence of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) on a Euclidean lattice through power expansion and a perturbative matching. When a parton's momentum becomes soft, the corresponding logarithms in the matching kernel become non-negligible at higher orders of perturbation theory, which requires a resummation. But the resummation for the off-forward matrix elements at nonzero skewness ξ\xi is difficult due to their multi-scale nature. In this work, we demonstrate that these logarithms are important only in the threshold limit, and derive the threshold factorization formula for the quasi-GPDs in LaMET. We then propose an approach to resum all the large logarithms based on the threshold factorization, which is implemented on a GPD model. We demonstrate that the LaMET prediction is reliable for [1+x0,ξx0][ξ+x0,ξx0][ξ+x0,1x0][-1+x_0,-\xi-x_0]\cup[-\xi+x_0,\xi-x_0]\cup[\xi+x_0,1-x_0], where x0x_0 is a cutoff depending on hard parton momenta. Through our numerical tests with the GPD model, we demonstrate that our method is self-consistent and that the inverse matching does not spread the nonperturbative effects or power corrections to the perturbatively calculable regions.

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@article{arxiv.2501.19225,
  title  = {Resummation for Lattice QCD Calculation of Generalized Parton Distributions at Nonzero Skewness},
  author = {Jack Holligan and Huey-Wen Lin and Rui Zhang and Yong Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.19225},
  year   = {2025}
}

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