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We propose a new method to calculate parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice correlations of boosted quarks and gluons in the Coulomb gauge. Compared to the widely used gauge-invariant Wilson-line operators, these correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiang Gao , Wei-Yang Liu , Yong Zhao

We present a high-statistics lattice QCD determination of the valence parton distribution function (PDF) of the pion, with a mass of 300 MeV, using two very fine lattice spacings of $a=0.06$ fm and 0.04 fm. We reconstruct the $x$-dependent…

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

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

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

Precise quantification of the structure of nucleons is one of the crucial aims of hadronic physics for the coming years. The expected progress related to ongoing and planned experiments should be accompanied by calculations of partonic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-05 Manjunath Bhat , Wojciech Chomicki , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Jeremy R. Green , Aurora Scapellato

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 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 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 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 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

We extract pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of experimental data together with reduced Ioffe time pseudo-distributions and matrix elements of current-current correlators generated from lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 P. C. Barry , C. Egerer , J. Karpie , W. Melnitchouk , C. Monahan , K. Orginos , Jian-Wei Qiu , D. Richards , N. Sato , R. S. Sufian , S. Zafeiropoulos

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

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…

We examine the dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) on the value of the QCD coupling strength $\alpha_{s}(M_{Z})$. We explain a simple method that is rigorously valid in the quadratic approximation normally applied in PDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Hung-Liang Lai , Joey Huston , Zhao Li , Pavel Nadolsky , Jon Pumplin , Daniel Stump , C. -P. Yuan

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…

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

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 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

In this paper, we present a detailed study of the unpolarized nucleon parton distribution function (PDF) employing the approach of parton pseudo-distribution functions. We perform a systematic analysis using three lattice ensembles at two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-01-29 Bálint Joó , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Anatoly Radyushkin , David Richards , Savvas Zafeiropoulos