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As a sequel of our preceding work [1] we carry out a comprehensive comparative study between the quasi parton distribution functions (PDFs), distribution amplitudes (DAs) and their light-cone counterparts for various flavor-neutral mesons,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-19 Yu Jia , Shuangran Liang , Xiaonu Xiong , Rui Yu

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…

The universality of the large momentum expansion allows computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) starting from any Euclidean correlator with appropriate large momentum Fourier Components. Here we consider current-current correlators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Jialu Zhang , Xiangdong Ji , Andreas Schäfer , Rui Zhang , Christian Zimmermann

Quasi parton distributions (quasi-PDFs) are currently under intense investigation. Quasi-PDFs are defined through spatial correlation functions and are thus accessible in lattice QCD. They gradually approach their corresponding standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-30 Shohini Bhattacharya , Christopher Cocuzza , Andreas Metz

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

We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 C. Cocuzza , N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

Double parton distribution functions (dPDFs), entering the double parton scattering (DPS) cross section, are unknown fundamental quantities encoding new interesting properties of hadrons. Here, the pion dPDFs are investigated within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Matteo Rinaldi

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 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

We present the first lattice QCD calculations of the isovector helicity transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution function (TMDPDF) and the flavor-dependent unpolarized TMDPDFs for up and down quarks in the proton. Our computations…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-18 Dennis Bollweg , Xiang Gao , Swagato Mukherjee , Yong Zhao

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

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,…

The large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework has been widely used to determine the Bjorken-$x$ dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in lattice-QCD hadron-structure calculations. In this proceeding, I highlighted…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-14 Huey-Wen Lin

We report a lattice QCD calculation of the parton distribution function (PDF) of a deuteron-like dibaryon system using large-momentum effective theory. The calculation is done on three Wilson Clover ensembles with a fixed lattice spacing…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-20 Chen Chen , Liuming Liu , Peng Sun , Yi-Bo Yang , Yiqi Geng , Fei Yao , Jian-Hui Zhang , Kuan Zhang

We present the main results of our recent papers, where we derived an analytical solution of the QCD evolution equations for parton distribution functions. The valence and non-singlet quark components satisfy the Gross-Llewellyn-Smith and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 A. V. Kotikov , A. V. Lipatov

Extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice QCD calculation of quasi-PDFs has been actively pursued in recent years. We extend our proof of the multiplicative renormalizability of quasi-quark operators in Ref. [1] to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Zheng-Yang Li , Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

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 present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of quark quasi parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the large momentum effective theory. The nontrivial factorization at this order is established explicitly and the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Long-Bin Chen , Wei Wang , Ruilin Zhu

The perturbative procedure of matching was proposed to connect parton quasi-distributions that are calculable in lattice QCD to the corresponding light-cone distributions which enter physical processes. Such a matching procedure has so far…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-22 Shohini Bhattacharya , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Andreas Metz , Aurora Scapellato , Fernanda Steffens

We show that quasi-PDFs may be treated as hybrids of PDFs and primordial rest-frame momentum distributions of partons. This results in a complicated convolution nature of quasi-PDFs that necessitates using large $p_3 \sim 3$ GeV momenta to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-06 A. V. Radyushkin