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Transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDPDFs) which appear in factorized cross sections involve infinite Wilson lines with edges on or close to the light-cone. Since these TMDPDFs are not directly calculable with a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-11 Markus A. Ebert , Iain W. Stewart , Yong Zhao

We present a lattice QCD calculation of the unpolarized isovector quark parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton utilizing a perturbative matching at next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO). The calculations are carried out using a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-05-10 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Jack Holligan , Nikhil Karthik , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Sergey Syritsyn , Yong Zhao

This preprint has been superseded by (A. Courtoy, A. S. Miramontes, H. Avakian, M. Mirazita, and S. Pisano, Phys. Rev. D 106, 014027 (2022), 2203.14975). The latter should be consulted and referred to for the extraction of the $e(x)$ PDF.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-07 A. Courtoy

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

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…

Using lattice QCD, we calculate the twist-2 contribution $a_2$ to the third Mellin moment of the spin structure functions $g_1$ and $g_2$ in the nucleon. In addition we evaluate the twist-3 contribution $d_2$. Our computations make use of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-03-23 S. Bürger , T. Wurm , M. Löffler , M. Göckeler , G. Bali , S. Collins , A. Schäfer , A. Sternbeck

We present a new approach to extracting continuum quasi distributions from lattice QCD. Quasi distributions are defined by matrix elements of a Wilson-line operator extended in a spatial direction, evaluated between nucleon states at finite…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 Christopher Monahan , Kostas Orginos

The non-singlet helicity quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon are determined from lattice QCD, by jointly leveraging pseudo-distributions and the distillation spatial smearing paradigm. A Lorentz decomposition of…

We present a determination of the structure functions of the off-forward Compton amplitude $\mathcal{H}_1$ and $\mathcal{E}_1$ from the Feynman-Hellmann method in lattice QCD. At leading twist, these structure functions give access to the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-07-11 A. Hannaford-Gunn , K. U. Can , J. A. Crawford , R. Horsley , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , H. Stüben , R. D. Young , J. M. Zanotti

This talk presents results from the QCDSF-UKQCD collaboration for moments of leading twist generalized parton distributions in two-flavor lattice QCD based on O(a) improved Wilson Fermions. We study helicity independent and helicity flip…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Gockeler , Ph. Hagler , R. Horsley , D. Pleiter , P. E. L. Rakow , A. Schafer , G. Schierholz , J. M. Zanotti

We formulate a consistent 1/N_c^2 expansion of the QCD evolution equations for the twist-three quark distributions g_2(x,Q^2), h_L(x,Q^2) and e(x,Q^2) based on the interpretation of the evolution as a three-particle quantum-mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 V. M. Braun , G. P. Korchemsky , A. N. Manashov

We explore the possibility to construct higher-twist parton distributions in a nucleon at some low reference scale from convolution integrals of the light-cone wave functions (WFs). To this end we introduce simple models for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-08 V. M. Braun , T. Lautenschlager , A. N. Manashov , B. Pirnay

I review lattice-QCD calculations of the electromagnetic and generalized form factors (GFFs), which determine the transverse structure of the nucleon, and briefly comment on recent calculations related to transverse-momentum dependent…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 Harvey B. Meyer

We discuss the current developments by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration in extracting parton distribution functions from the quasi-PDF approach. We concentrate on the non-perturbative renormalization prescription recently developed…

Generalized Parton Distribution functions (GPDs) are off-diagonal light-cone matrix elements that encode the internal structure of hadrons in terms of quark and gluon degrees of freedom. In this work, we present the first nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-25 Sebastian Grieninger , Jake Montgomery , Felix Ringer , Ismail Zahed

In this work, we calculate a broad class of parton distributions - including parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs), generalized parton distributions (GPDs), generalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Shohini Bhattacharya , Chuan-Qi He , Zhong-Bo Kang , Diego Padilla , Jani Penttala

Following a ground-breaking proposal by Ji~\cite{PhysRevLett.110.262002}, numerical simulations of Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) on a Euclidean lattice have provided new, valuable information on the structure of hadrons. In this talk, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-29 Luigi Del Debbio

Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) offer a comprehensive picture of the nucleon structure and dynamics and provide a link between microscopic and macroscopic properties of the nucleon. These quantities, which can be interpreted as the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Voutier

We propose an analysis method for the leading-twist operator product expansion based lattice QCD determinations of the valence parton distribution function (PDF). In the first step, we determine the confidence-intervals of the leading-twist…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-08 Nikhil Karthik , Raza Sabbir Sufian

We propose a six-dimensional light-front Wigner distribution for the complete description of partonic structures of a hadron such as pion and proton, taking advantage of the recently proposed light-front variable $\tilde{z}$ by Miller and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-16 Yingda Han , Tianbo Liu , Bo-Qiang Ma