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The path-integral formulation of the hadronic tensor W_{\mu\nu} of deep inelastic scattering is reviewed. It is shown that there are 3 gauge invariant and topologically distinct contributions. The separation of the connected sea partons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-25 Keh-Fei Liu

Recently, a novel approach has been proposed to compute parton distributions through the use of boosted correlators fixed in the Coulomb gauge from lattice QCD, within the framework of Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET). This approach…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-13 Xiang Gao , Jinchen He , Joshua Lin , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Rui Zhang , 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

At small transverse momentum $q_T$, transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) arise as genuinely nonperturbative objects that describe Drell-Yan like processes in hadron collisions as well as semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-21 Markus A. Ebert , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We show that two dimensional QCD can, to a good approximation, describe the hadronic structure functions measured in Deep Inelastic Scattering. We transform this theory into a new form, Quantum HadronDynamics (QHD), whose semi-classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Rajeev

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory governing the strong interaction of particles. It describes the interactions that bind quarks and gluons into protons and neutrons, and binds these into nuclei. We believe QCD to be as fundamental…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John Arrington

We study the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions in the newly proposed quasi-parton distribution function framework in Euclidean space. A soft factor subtraction is found to be essential to make the TMDs calculable on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Xiangdong Ji , Peng Sun , Xiaonu Xiong , Feng Yuan

In this talk we present the results of the investigation on the so called double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), accessible quantities in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions, in double parton scattering processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Matteo Rinaldi

We study parton-branching solutions of QCD evolution equations and present a method to construct both collinear and transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton densities from this approach. We work with next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 F. Hautmann , H. Jung , A. Lelek , V. Radescu , R. Zlebcik

Generalised Parton Distributions (GPDs) provide multidimensional insight into hadron structure and are particularly relevant for the pion, whose dynamics are intimately linked to chiral symmetry breaking. We introduce a novel modelling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 J. M. Morgado-Chávez , J. Segovia , F. de Soto , J. Rodríguez-Quintero , V. Bertone , M. Defurne , C. Mezrag , H. Moutarde

Originally it was thought that the proton is not divisible into smaller particles. However, from collision experiments it follows that it consists of a 'soup' of countless 'colored' elementary particles such as quarks and gluons that are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Tom van Daal

We present the first lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculation of the pion valence-quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) within the framework of large-momentum effective theory (LaMET). Using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-09 Dennis Bollweg , Xiang Gao , Jinchen He , Swagato Mukherjee , Yong Zhao

Generalized parton distributions are a new type of hadronic observables which has recently stimulated great interest among theorists and experimentalists alike. Introduced to delineate the spin structure of the nucleon, the orbital angular…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiangdong Ji

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

Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) characterize the 3-dimensional structure of hadrons, combining information about their internal quark and gluon longitudinal momentum distributions and transverse position within the hadron. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-25 A. Freese , D. Adamiak , I. Cloët , W. Melnitchouk , J. -W. Qiu , N. Sato , M. Zaccheddu

In this kick-off presentation for the "Recent developments in QCD" session at Baryons 2025 I will tie together the recent progress made on the extraction of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in lattice QCD and the long standing efforts…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-03 Alexander Rothkopf

Parton distribution functions play a pivotal role in hadron collider phenomenology. They are non-perturbative quantities extracted from fits to available data, and their scale dependence is dictated by the DGLAP evolution equations. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Salvador A. Ochoa-Oregon , David F. Rentería-Estrada , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , Pia Zurita

We present a first attempt to design a quantum circuit for the determination of the parton content of the proton through the estimation of parton distribution functions (PDFs), in the context of high energy physics (HEP). The growing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Adrián Pérez-Salinas , Juan Cruz-Martinez , Abdulla A. Alhajri , Stefano Carrazza

We investigate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion and the kaon by combining quantum chromodynamics (QCD) evolution with the basis light front quantization. The initial PDFs result from the light front wave functions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-23 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from electron-proton and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Paloma Quiroga-Arias , Jose Guilherme Milhano , Urs Achin Wiedemann