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Unpolarized and helicity generalized parton distributions of the proton within lattice QCD

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Abstract

We present the first calculation of the xx-dependence of the proton generalized parton distributions (GPDs) within lattice QCD. Results are obtained for the isovector unpolarized and helicity GPDs. We compute the appropriate matrix elements of fast-moving protons coupled to non-local operators containing a Wilson line. We present results for proton momenta 0.83,1.25,1.670.83,\,1.25,\,1.67 GeV, and momentum transfer squared 0.69,1.380.69,\,1.38 GeV2^2. These combinations include cases with zero and nonzero skewness. The calculation is performed using one ensemble of two degenerate mass light, a strange and a charm quark of maximally twisted mass fermions with a clover term. The lattice results are matched to the light-cone GPDs using one-loop perturbation theory within the framework of large momentum effective theory. The final GPDs are given in the MS\overline{\rm MS} scheme at a scale of 2 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10573,
  title  = {Unpolarized and helicity generalized parton distributions of the proton within lattice QCD},
  author = {Constantia Alexandrou and Krzysztof Cichy and Martha Constantinou and Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou and Karl Jansen and Aurora Scapellato and Fernanda Steffens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10573},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Main document: 5 pages, Supplementary document (Appendix): 10 pages. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters