We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the kaon valence-quark distribution functions using the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach. The calculation is performed with multiple pion masses with the lightest one around 220 MeV, 2 lattice spacings a=0.06 and 0.12 fm, (Mπ)minL≈5.5, and high statistics ranging from 11,600 to 61,312 measurements. We also calculate the valence-quark distribution of pion and find it to be consistent with the FNAL E615 experimental results, and our ratio of the u quark PDF in the kaon to that in the pion agrees with the CERN NA3 experiment. We also make predictions of the strange-quark distribution of the kaon.
@article{arxiv.2003.14128,
title = {Valence-Quark Distribution of the Kaon and Pion from Lattice QCD},
author = {Huey-Wen Lin and Jiunn-Wei Chen and Zhouyou Fan and Jian-Hui Zhang and Rui Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.14128},
year = {2021}
}