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I explain the current status of parton-distribution-function (PDF) studies and future experimental prospects on their determinations. First, unpolarized PDFs of the nucleon are introduced as a field of precision QCD physics including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-17 S. Kumano

We present a lattice QCD study of valence parton distribution inside the pion within the framework of Large Momentum Effective Theory. We use a mixed action approach with 1-HYP smeared valence Wilson clover quarks on 2+1 flavor HISQ sea…

We revise the relation between Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and matrix elements computable from lattice QCD, focusing on the quasi-Parton Distribution Functions (qPDFs) approach. We exploit the relation between PDFs and qPDFs in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Krzysztof Cichy , Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani

We review the current status of Parton Distribution Function (PDF) determinations for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized protons and for unpolarized nuclei, which are probed by high-energy hadronic scattering in perturbative Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Jacob J. Ethier , Emanuele R. Nocera

We report a state-of-the-art lattice QCD calculation of the isovector quark transversity distribution of the proton in the continuum and physical mass limit using large-momentum effective theory. The calculation is done at four lattice…

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

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-09 Zhouyou Fan , Rui Zhang , Huey-Wen Lin

We report a state-of-the-art lattice QCD calculation of the nucleon gluon parton distribution function employing large-momentum effective theory. The calculation is carried out on the 2+1 flavour CLQCD ensembles with three lattice spacings…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-10-31 Chen Chen , Hongxin Dong , Liuming Liu , Peng Sun , Xiaonu Xiong , Yi-Bo Yang , Fei Yao , Jian-Hui Zhang , Chunhua Zeng , Shiyi Zhong

We present results for the unpolarized parton distribution function of the nucleon computed in lattice QCD at the physical pion mass. This is the first study of its kind employing the method of Ioffe time pseudo-distributions. Beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-12-30 Bálint Joó , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Anatoly V. Radyushkin , David G. Richards , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We present the first lattice calculation of the nucleon isovector unpolarized generalized parton distribution (GPD) at the physical pion mass using a lattice ensemble with 2+1+1 flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ) generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-10 Huey-Wen Lin

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

We review basic ideas and recent developments on the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, in view of applications to precision hadron collider physics. We review the way information on parton distributions (PDFs) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Stefano Forte

We present a detailed study of the helicity-dependent and helicity-independent collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon, using the quasi-PDF approach. The lattice QCD computation is performed employing twisted mass…

We review the current status of spin-averaged and spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon. After presenting the formalism used to fit PDFs in modern global data analyses, we discuss constraints placed on the PDFs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Jimenez-Delgado , W. Melnitchouk , J. F. Owens

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

We present a calculation of the bare quasi-PDF (qPDF) of the pion. We perform these calculations using the HotQCD HISQ gauge ensemble for our sea quarks along with a Wilson-Clover valence quark action. Our lattice size is $48^3\times64$,…

We compute the axial, scalar, tensor and pseudoscalar isovector couplings of the nucleon as well as the induced tensor and pseudoscalar charges in lattice simulations with $N_f=2$ mass-degenerate non-perturbatively improved…

We apply the Distillation spatial smearing program to the extraction of the unpolarized isovector valence PDF of the nucleon. The improved volume sampling and control of excited-states afforded by distillation leads to a dramatically…

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

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