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We discuss the principles underlying higher spin glueball calculations on the lattice. For that purpose, we develop numerical techniques to rotate Wilson loops by arbitrary angles in lattice gauge theories close to the continuum. As a first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Harvey B. Meyer , Michael J. Teper

In these proceedings we discuss recent progress in nucleon structure using lattice QCD simulations at or near the physical value of the pion mass. Main focus will be given in observables such as the nucleon axial charge and the first…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-01-12 Martha Constantinou

By assuming that there is no significant intrinsic polarization of the gluon, we have computed the polarized quark contributions to the proton's spin under SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking for the polarized sea and have performed a global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Chung-Yi Wu

We present the first chiral-continuum extrapolated up, down and strange quark spin contribution to the proton spin using lattice QCD. For the connected contributions, we use eleven ensembles of 2+1+1-flavor of Highly Improved Staggered…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-05 Huey-Wen Lin , Rajan Gupta , Boram Yoon , Yong-Chull Jang , Tanmoy Bhattacharya

We report a state-of-the-art lattice QCD calculation of the nucleon gluon parton distribution function employing large-momentum effective theory. The calculation is carried out on the 2+1 flavour CLQCD ensembles with three lattice spacings…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-31 Chen Chen , Hongxin Dong , Liuming Liu , Peng Sun , Xiaonu Xiong , Yi-Bo Yang , Fei Yao , Jian-Hui Zhang , Chunhua Zeng , Shiyi Zhong

A future Electron-Ion Collider will enable the gluon contributions to the gravitational form factors of the proton to be constrained experimentally for the first time. Here, the first calculation of these form factors from lattice Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-30 P. E. Shanahan , W. Detmold

Using lattice QCD, we calculate the twist-2 contribution $a_2$ to the third Mellin moment of the spin structure functions $g_1$ and $g_2$ in the nucleon. In addition we evaluate the twist-3 contribution $d_2$. Our computations make use of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-03-23 S. Bürger , T. Wurm , M. Löffler , M. Göckeler , G. Bali , S. Collins , A. Schäfer , A. Sternbeck

We provide a theoretical basis for understanding the spin structure of the proton in terms of the spin and orbital angular momenta of free quarks and gluons in Feynman's parton picture. We show that each term in the Jaffe-Manohar spin sum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-12 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We present a calculation of the leading order hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon for a dynamical simulation of 2+1 flavour QCD using domain wall fermions. The electromagnetic 2-point function is evaluated on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-03-19 Peter Boyle , Luigi Del Debbio , Eoin Kerrane , James Zanotti

This paper contains three parts relating to the nucleon spin structure in a simple picture of the nucleon: (i) The polarized gluon distribution in the proton is dynamically predicted starting from a low scale by using a nonlinear QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Wei Zhu , Jianhong Ruan

Since the announcement of the proton spin crisis by the European Muon Collaboration there has been considerable progress in unravelling the distribution of spin and orbital angular momentum within the proton. We review the current status of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-03 A. W. Thomas

Momentum and spatial distributions of quarks and gluons inside hadrons are typically encoded in the so-called generalized parton distributions (GPDs). GPDs are multi-dimensional quantities that are very challenging to extract, both…

We present a first machine learning-based decoding of the gluonic structure of the proton from lattice QCD using a variational autoencoder inverse mapper (VAIM). Harnessing the power of generative AI, we predict the parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-25 Brandon Kriesten , Alex NieMiera , William Good , T. J. Hobbs , Huey-Wen Lin

In this paper, we present lattice QCD results for the $x$-dependence of the unpolarized gluon PDF for the proton. We use one ensemble of $N_f=2+1+1$ maximally twisted mass fermions with a clover improvement, and the Iwasaki improved gluon…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-03 Joseph Delmar , Constantia Alexandrou , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou

We calculate the gluon momentum fraction of the nucleon using lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), with a nonperturbative renormalization technique based on the gradient flow. The gluon momentum fraction is determined on a single…

A non-perturbative calculation of the ghost-gluon running QCD coupling constant is performed using $N_f=2$ twisted-mass dynamical fermions. The extraction of $\Lambda_{\bar{MS}}$ in the chiral limit reveals the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-10-28 B. Blossier , Ph. Boucaud , F. De soto , V. Morenas , M. Gravina , O. Pène , J. Rodríguez-Quintero

The part of the proton spin $\Sigma$ carried by $u, d, s$ quarks is calculated in the framework of the QCD sum rules in the external fields. The operators up to dimension 9 are accounted. An important contribution comes from the operator of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Ioffe , A. Oganesian

The masses of pure gauge glueballs are calculated with the use of relativistic string Hamiltonian without fitting parameters. The string tension $\sigma_f=0.184$~GeV$^2$ in fundamental representation is fixed, using the Necco-Sommer lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. M. Badalian , M. S. Lukashov

The experiment E155 at SLAC measured the spin structure functions g_1 and g_2 of the proton and deuteron. The experiment used deep inelastic scattering of 48.3 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons incident on polarized solid ^{15}NH_3 and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory S. Mitchell

We report on our exploratory study for the direct evaluation of the parton distribution functions from lattice QCD, based on a recently proposed new approach. We present encouraging results using Nf = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass fermions with a…