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We review the latest progress in lattice QCD calculations of the partonic structure of hadrons. This structure is, in particular, described in terms of $x$-dependent distributions, the simplest of which are the standard parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-18 Krzysztof Cichy

We present a nonperturbative determination of the pion valence parton distribution function (PDF) moment ratios $\left\langle x^{n-1} \right\rangle / \left\langle x \right\rangle$ up to $n=6$, using the gradient flow in lattice QCD. As a…

We present the first exploratory lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculation of the polarized gluon Ioffe-time pseudo-distribution in the nucleon. The Ioffe-time pseudo-distribution provides a frame-independent and gauge-invariant…

Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) are key quantities for the description of a hadron's three-dimensional structure. They are the current focus of all areas of hadronic physics -- phenomenological, experimental, and theoretical,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-09-05 Shohini Bhattacharya , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Andreas Metz , Niilo Nurminen , Fernanda Steffens

In this work, we present the first-ever calculation of the isovector flavor combination of the twist-3 parton distribution function $g_T(x)$ for the proton from lattice QCD. We use an ensemble of gauge configurations with two degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-12-30 Shohini Bhattacharya , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Andreas Metz , Aurora Scapellato , Fernanda Steffens

We present an exploration of the unpolarized isovector proton generalized parton distributions (GPDs) $H^{u-d}(x, \xi, t)$ and $E^{u-d}(x, \xi, t)$ in the pseudo-distribution formalism using distillation. Taking advantage of the large…

We review the current state of the art in the determination of the parton substructure of the nucleon, as expressed in terms of parton distribution functions (PDFs), and probed in high-energy lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-23 Stefano Forte , Graeme Watt

We present the key results from the first study of the $x$-dependent nucleon gluon distribution from lattice QCD extrapolated to the physical-continuum limit. We use ensembles with $2+1+1$ flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-07-14 William Good , Zhouyou Fan , Huey-Wen Lin

We present a new method, based on Gaussian process regression, for reconstructing the continuous $x$-dependence of parton distribution functions (PDFs) from quasi-PDFs computed using lattice QCD. We examine the origin of the unphysical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-25 Constantia Alexandrou , Giovanni Iannelli , Karl Jansen , Floriano Manigrasso

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

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-15 T. J. Hobbs , Bo-Ting Wang , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness

We provide an analysis of the x-dependence of the bare unpolarized, helicity and transversity iso-vector parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice calculations employing (maximally) twisted mass fermions. The x-dependence of the…

We extract two nonsinglet nucleon Parton Distribution Functions from lattice QCD data for reduced Ioffe-time pseudodistributions. We perform such analysis within the NNPDF framework, considering data coming from different lattice ensembles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Luigi Del Debbio , Tommaso Giani , Joseph Karpie , Kostas Orginos , Anatoly Radyushkin , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We propose a reconstruction of the full $(x, \xi, t)$ dependence of unpolarized isovector proton generalized parton distributions (GPDs) $H^{u-d}$ and $E^{u-d}$ from lattice QCD data in the pseudo-distribution formalism. For the first time,…

Reports on our latest extractions of parton distribution functions of the nucleon are given. First an overview of the recent JR14 upgrade of our unpolarized PDFs, including NNLO determinations of the strong coupling constant and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Pedro Jimenez-Delgado

In lattice-QCD calculations of parton distribution functions (PDFs) via large-momentum effective theory, the leading power (twist-three) correction appears as ${\cal O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/P^z)$ due to the linear-divergent self-energy of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Zhang , Jack Holligan , Xiangdong Ji , Yushan Su

Following our previous proposal [1], we construct a class of good "lattice cross sections" (LCSs), from which we could study partonic structure of hadrons from ab initio lattice QCD calculations. These good LCSs, on the one hand, can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-12 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

In this work, we present a first-principles lattice-QCD calculation of the unpolarized quark PDF for the pion and the kaon. The lattice data rely on matrix elements calculated for boosted mesons coupled to non-local operators containing a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-20 Joshua Miller , Joseph Torsiello , Isaac Anderson , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Joseph Delmar , Sarah Lampreich

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

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…