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Building upon the PDFSense framework developed in Ref. [1], we perform a comprehensive analysis of the sensitivity of present and future high-energy data to a number of quantities commonly evaluated in lattice gauge theory, with a…

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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…

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We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the isovector polarized parton distribution functions (both helicity and transversity) using the large-momentum effective field theory (LaMET) approach for direct Bjorken-$x$ dependence. We…

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We present the first lattice calculation of the nucleon isovector helicity parton distribution function (PDF) in the framework of large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) that uses the hybrid scheme with self-renormalization. We use…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-05-29 Jack Holligan , Huey-Wen Lin

Since the parton model was introduced by Feynman more than fifty years ago, we have learned much about the partonic structure of the proton through a large body of high-energy experimental data and dedicated global fits. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-08 Xiangdong Ji , Yu-Sheng Liu , Yizhuang Liu , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We present the first determination of the $x$-dependent pion gluon distribution from lattice QCD using the pseudo-PDF approach. We use lattice ensembles with 2+1+1 flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ), generated by MILC…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-11-17 Zhouyou Fan , Huey-Wen Lin

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

We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics calculation of the $x$-dependent isovector quark helicity parton distribution function (PDF) of the proton in the large momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework. Through operator product…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-06 Xiang Gao , Andrew D. Hanlon , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Fei Yao , Rui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We present a systematic study of the nucleon gluon parton distribution function (PDF) using the self-renormalized large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach in lattice QCD. This work extends previous gluon-PDF extractions by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-11 Alex NieMiera , William Good , Huey-Wen Lin , Fei Yao

We present a state-of-the-art calculation of the isovector quark helicity Bjorken-$x$ distribution in the proton using lattice-QCD ensembles at the physical pion mass. We compute quasi-distributions at proton momenta $P_z \in \{2.2, 2.6,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-29 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Xiangdong Ji , Luchang Jin , Ruizi Li , Yu-Sheng Liu , Yi-Bo Yang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

There have been rapid developments in the direct calculation in lattice QCD (LQCD) of the Bjorken-$x$ dependence of hadron structure through large-momentum effective theory (LaMET). LaMET overcomes the previous limitation of LQCD to moments…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-25 Rui Zhang , Zhouyou Fan , Ruizi Li , Huey-Wen Lin , Boram Yoon

Large-Momentum Effective Theory (or LaMET) advocated by the present authors provides a direct approach to simulate parton physics in Eulidean lattice QCD theory. Recently, there has been much interest in this theory in the literature, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the kaon valence-quark distribution functions using the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) approach. The calculation is performed with multiple pion masses with the lightest one around…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-04-15 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Zhouyou Fan , Jian-Hui Zhang , Rui Zhang

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 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 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 present the first direct lattice-QCD calculation of the Bjorken-$x$ dependence of the valence quark distribution of the pion. Using large-momentum effective theory (LaMET), we calculate the boosted pion state with long Wilson link…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-08-14 Jian-Hui Zhang , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Luchang Jin , Huey-Wen Lin , Andreas Schäfer , Yong Zhao

We present the first physical-continuum limit $x$-dependent nucleon gluon distribution from lattice QCD using the pseudo-PDF approach, on lattice ensembles with $2+1+1$ flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ), generated by MILC…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-02 Zhouyou Fan , William Good , Huey-Wen Lin

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),…

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