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We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the nucleon isovector unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the physical-continuum limit using Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET). The lattice results are calculated using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-12-01 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-02 Hsiang-nan Li

Following previous works on that topic, we consider Euclidean hadronic matrix elements in position space of two spatially separated local currents on the lattice, in order to extract the $x$ dependence of parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-11 Christian Zimmermann , Andreas Schäfer

We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the unpolarized isovector parton distribution function (PDF) using ensembles at the physical pion mass with large proton boost momenta $P_z \in \{2.2,2.6,3.0\}$~GeV within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-05-21 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Luchang Jin , Huey-Wen Lin , Yu-Sheng Liu , Yi-Bo Yang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

A set of quasi-parton distribution functions (quasi-PDFs) have been recently proposed by Ji. Defined as the matrix elements of equal-time spatial correlations, they can be computed on the lattice and should reduce to the standard PDFs when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-03 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

In this document, we summarize the status and challenges of calculating parton physics in lattice QCD for the US Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise (a.k.a. "Snowmass"). While PDF-moments calculations have been very successful and…

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

We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

We present the first attempt to access the $x$-dependence of the gluon unpolarized parton distribution function (PDF), based on lattice simulations using the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach. The lattice calculation is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-12-19 Zhou-You Fan , Yi-Bo Yang , Adam Anthony , Huey-Wen Lin , Keh-Fei Liu

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

In this talk, we review a QCD factorization based approach to extract parton distribution and correlation functions from lattice QCD calculation of single hadron matrix elements of quark-gluon operators. We argue that although the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

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

We present new sets of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our analyses are based on deeply inelastic scattering data with charged-lepton and neutrino beams…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Marina Walt , Ilkka Helenius , Werner Vogelsang

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

We present a first lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized nucleon's isovector transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs), which are essential to predict observables of multi-scale, semi-inclusive processes in…

We review basic ideas and recent developments on the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, in view of applications to precision hadron collider physics. We review the way information on parton distributions (PDFs) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Stefano Forte

We review the current status of Parton Distribution Function (PDF) determinations for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized protons and for unpolarized nuclei, which are probed by high-energy hadronic scattering in perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera

In this article, we review recent lattice calculations on the $x$-dependence of parton distributions, with the latter providing information on hadron structure. These calculations are based on matrix elements of boosted hadrons coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-03-17 Martha Constantinou

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 demonstrate a new method of extracting parton distributions from lattice calculations. The starting idea is to treat the generic equal-time matrix element ${\cal M} (Pz_3, z_3^2)$ as a function of the Ioffe time $\nu = Pz_3$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-30 Kostas Orginos , Anatoly Radyushkin , Joseph Karpie , Savvas Zafeiropoulos