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We discuss the physical nature of quasi-PDFs, especially the reasons for the strong nonperturbative evolution pattern which they reveal in actual lattice gauge calculations. We argue that quasi-PDFs may be treated as hybrids of PDFs and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-17 Anatoly Radyushkin

To facilitate lattice QCD calculations of nucleon structute, a set of quasi-parton distributions were recently introduced. These quasi-PDFs were shown to reduce to standard PDFs when the nucleon is boosted to high energies, $P_z\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

Within the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the rich structure of hadrons can be quantitatively characterized, among others, using a basis of universal non-perturbative functions: parton distribution functions (PDFs), generalized…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-14 Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou

We present the first numerical investigation of the method proposed in Ref. [1] to utilize gradient flow to obtain precise determinations of higher moments of PDFs from lattice QCD, circumventing power divergent mixing with lower…

Large momentum effective field theory provides a new direction for lattice QCD calculations of hadronic structure functions, such as parton distribution functions (PDFs), meson distribution amplitudes, and so on, directly with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-03 Xiaonu Xiong , Thomas Luu , Ulf-G. Meißner

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…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-01 H. Dutrieux , J. Karpie , C. Monahan , K. Orginos , S. Zafeiropoulos

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

In lattice-QCD calculations of parton distribution functions (PDFs) via large-momentum effective theory, the leading power (twist-three) correction appears as ${\cal O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/P^z)$ due to the linear-divergent self-energy of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Zhang , Jack Holligan , Xiangdong Ji , Yushan Su

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative quantities describing the relation between a hadron and quarks and gluons within it. We propose to extract PDFs from QCD global analysis of "data" generated by lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

We present a systematic study of the nucleon gluon parton distribution function (PDF) using the self-renormalized large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach in lattice QCD. This work extends previous gluon-PDF extractions by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Alex NieMiera , William Good , Huey-Wen Lin , Fei Yao

Large momentum effective field theory (LaMET) enables the extraction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) directly on a Euclidean lattice through a factorization theorem that relates the computed quasi-PDFs to PDFs. We apply chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-29 Wei-Yang Liu , Jiunn-Wei Chen

We present the first Monte Carlo based global QCD analysis of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) that includes nucleon isovector matrix elements in coordinate space from lattice QCD. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-13 J. Bringewatt , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk , Jian-Wei Qiu , F. Steffens , M. Constantinou

A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-12 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

We present progress towards the first unpolarized gluon quasi-PDF from lattice QCD using high-statistics measurement with $a \approx 0.12$ fm and two valence pion masses $M_\pi \approx 310$ and $690$ MeV generated on $2+1+1$-flavors of HISQ…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-09-05 William Good , Kinza Hasan , Huey-Wen Lin

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large $x$ are poorly constrained by high-energy experimental data, but extremely important for probing physics beyond standard model at colliders. We study the calculation of PDFs at large-$x$ through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu , Yushan Su

We present results on the Mellin moments of the unpolarized parton distribution function (PDF) of the pion and kaon up to the fourth order. The computation is done using one $N_f=2+1+1$ gauge ensemble of twisted mass fermions with quark…

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are central to precision QCD phenomenology. Their Mellin moments can be computed on the lattice, but direct determinations using local operators, besides $\langle x \rangle$, face severe challenges from…

The quasi parton distribution is a spatial correlation of quarks or gluons along the $z$ direction in a moving nucleon which enables direct lattice calculations of parton distribution functions. It can be defined with a nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We study the changes in the short-distance quark structure of the Nambu-Goldstone boson when the long-distance symmetry-breaking scales are depleted controllably. We achieve this by studying the valence Parton Distribution Function (PDF) of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-05-04 Nikhil Karthik