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Lattice QCD offers the possibility of computing parton distributions from first principles, although not in the usual $\overline{MS}$ factorization scheme. We study in this paper the evolution of non-singlet parton distribution functions…

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The detailed comprehension of momentum fraction and energy dependence of proton structure functions is among the major difficulties in high-energy physics. Perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) plays as an extensive foundation for…

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We present the first lattice results on isovector unpolarized and longitudinally polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) at physical pion mass. The PDFs are obtained using the large-momentum effective field theory (LaMET) framework…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-09-12 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Tomomi Ishikawa , Jian-Hui Zhang

In this paper, we develop an approach to calculate the valence-quark quasi parton distribution amplitude (quasi-PDA) and quasi parton distribution function (quasi-PDF) for the pion with a large longitudinal momentum with the functional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-24 Dao-yu Zhang , Chuang Huang , Wei-jie Fu

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) and light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) are central non-perturbative objects of interest in high-energy inelastic and elastic scattering, respectively. As a result, an ab-initio determination of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-22 William Detmold , Anthony V. Grebe , Issaku Kanamori , C. -J. David Lin , Robert J. Perry , Yong Zhao

Many present lattice QCD approaches to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) rely on a factorization formula or effective theory expansion of certain Euclidean matrix elements in boosted hadron states. In the quasi- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-28 Xiang Gao , Kyle Lee , Swagato Mukherjee , Charles Shugert , Yong Zhao

We review recent theoretical developments concerning the definition and the renormalization of equal-time correlators that can be computed on the lattice and related to Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) through a factorization formula.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-07-15 Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani , Christopher J. Monahan

We show that quasi-PDFs may be treated as hybrids of PDFs and primordial rest-frame momentum distributions of partons. This results in a complicated convolution nature of quasi-PDFs that necessitates using large $p_3 \sim 3$ GeV momenta to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-06 A. V. Radyushkin

We complete the procedure of extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) using large momentum effective theory (LaMET) at leading power accuracy in the hadron momentum. We derive a general factorization formula for the quasi PDFs in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Wei Wang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Shuai Zhao , Ruilin Zhu

Using the approach proposed a few years ago by X. Ji, it has become feasible to extract parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice QCD, a task thought to be extremely difficult before Ji's proposal. In this talk, we discuss this…

We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of the $x$-dependent isovector quark helicity parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework. Through operator product…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-06 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Fei Yao , Rui Zhang , Yong Zhao

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

We propose a modified definition for a quasi-parton distribution function (QPDF) with an equal-time correlator in the large momentum limit, whose two pieces of space-like Wilson links are oriented in orthogonal directions. It is explicitly…

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The universality of the large momentum expansion allows computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) starting from any Euclidean correlator with appropriate large momentum Fourier Components. Here we consider current-current correlators…

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One of the great challenges of QCD is to determine the partonic structure of the nucleon from first principles. In this work, we provide such a determination of the flavor non-singlet ($u-d$) unpolarized parton distribution function (PDF),…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-03 Manjunath Bhat , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Aurora Scapellato

To calculate the transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) from lattice QCD, an important goal yet to be realized, it is crucial to establish a viable non-perturbative renormalization approach for linear…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-31 Kuan Zhang , Xiangdong Ji , Yi-Bo Yang , Fei Yao , Jian-Hui Zhang

We study isovector unpolarized and helicity parton distribution functions (PDF) of the proton within the framework of Large Momentum Effective Theory. We use a gauge ensemble, generated by the MILC Collaboration, with a superfine lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-10-19 Zhouyou Fan , Xiang Gao , Ruizi Li , Huey-Wen Lin , Nikhil Karthik , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Sergey Syritsyn , Yi-Bo Yang , Rui Zhang

Building upon the PDFSense framework developed in Ref. [1], we perform a comprehensive analysis of the sensitivity of present and future high-energy data to a number of quantities commonly evaluated in lattice gauge theory, with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-15 T. J. Hobbs , Bo-Ting Wang , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness

Extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice QCD calculation of quasi-PDFs has been actively pursued in recent years. We extend our proof of the multiplicative renormalizability of quasi-quark operators in Ref. [1] to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Zheng-Yang Li , Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

The quasi-PDF approach provides a path to computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) using lattice QCD. This approach requires matrix elements of a power-divergent operator in a nucleon at high momentum and one generically expects…