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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…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-04-15 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Zhouyou Fan , Jian-Hui Zhang , Rui Zhang

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative objects defined by nonlocal light-cone correlations. They cannot be computed directly from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Using a standard lattice QCD approach, it is possible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Alessandro Bacchetta , Marco Radici , Barbara Pasquini , Xiaonu Xiong

We present the first lattice-QCD $x$-dependent pion valence-quark generalized parton distribution (GPD) calculated directly at physical pion mass using the Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET) with next-to-next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-17 Huey-Wen Lin

We investigate the properties of the pion quasiparticle in the low-temperature phase of two-flavor QCD on the lattice with support from chiral effective theory. We find that the pion quasiparticle mass is significantly reduced compared to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-22 Bastian B. Brandt , Anthony Francis , Harvey B. Meyer , Daniel Robaina

The charge form factor of the pion is calculated in lattice QCD. The non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert action is used together with the $\mathcal{O}(a)$ improved vector current. Other choices for the current are examined.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 J. van der Heide , J. Koch , E. Laermann

We revise the relation between Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and matrix elements computable from lattice QCD, focusing on the quasi-Parton Distribution Functions (qPDFs) approach. We exploit the relation between PDFs and qPDFs in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Krzysztof Cichy , Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-09 Zhouyou Fan , Rui Zhang , Huey-Wen Lin

We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, with lattice-QCD data on gluonic pseudo--Ioffe-time distributions fitted simultaneously with experimental Drell-Yan and leading neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 William Good , Patrick C. Barry , Huey-Wen Lin , W. Melnitchouk , Alex NieMiera , Nobuo Sato

In this work, we investigate the valence quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion within the light-cone quark model. The initial quark PDFs are calculated by solving the quark-quark correlation function for the pseudoscalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Hari Govind P , Satyajit Puhan , Abhishek K. P , Reetanshu Pandey , Harleen Dahiya , Arvind Kumar , Suneel Dutt

We investigate the properties of the pion quasiparticle in the low-temperature phase of two-flavor QCD on the lattice with support from chiral effective theory. We find that the pion quasiparticle mass is significantly reduced compared to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-18 Bastian B. Brandt , Anthony Francis , Harvey B. Meyer , Daniel Robaina

Traditionally, lattice QCD computations of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) have been carried out in a symmetric frame, where the transferred momentum is symmetrically distributed between the incoming and outgoing hadrons. However,…

We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the pion distribution amplitude using the large- momentum effective field theory (LaMET) approach, which allows us to extract lightcone parton observables from a Euclidean lattice. The mass…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-07 Jian-Hui Zhang , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Xiangdong Ji , Luchang Jin , Huey-Wen Lin

We present preliminary results from the first calculation of the pion electromagnetic form factor at physical light quark masses. This form factor parameterises the deviations from the behaviour of a point-like particle when a photon hits…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-15 Jonna Koponen , Francis Bursa , Christine Davies , Gordon Donald , Rachel Dowdall

Within the Dyson-Schwinger equation formulation of QCD, a rainbow ladder truncation is used to calculate the pion valence-quark distribution function(PDF). The gap equation is renormalized at a typical hadronic scale, of order 0.5GeV, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Lei Chang , Anthony W. Thomas

We present results for the flavor non-singlet u-d parton distribution functions within the nucleon using the quasi-PDF approach. The lattice calculation is performed by employing the twisted mass formulation and two gauge ensembles, having…

We analyze the moments of parton distribution functions in the pion calculated in lattice QCD, paying particular attention to their chiral extrapolation. Using the lowest three non-trivial moments calculated on the lattice, we assess the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Detmold , W. Melnitchouk , A. W. Thomas

We use the infinite volume reconstruction method to calculate the charged/neutral pion mass difference. The hadronic tensor is calculated on lattice QCD and then combined with an analytic photon propagator, and the mass splitting is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-02-23 Xu Feng , Luchang Jin , Michael Joseph Riberdy

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

We present a Lattice QCD calculation of the second Mellin moments of the nucleon axial, vector and tensor parton distribution functions (PDFs). The calculation is performed at the physical pion mass with two different lattice spacings, and…

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…