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We study the unpolarized and the helicity dependent generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the valence quarks of the proton in both momentum space and position space within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. The GPDs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Yiping Liu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present exploratory analyses of the 3D gluon content of the proton via a study of unpolarized and polarized gluon TMDs at twist-2, calculated in a spectator model for the parent nucleon. Our approach embodies a flexible parametrization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-12 Alessandro Bacchetta , Francesco Giovanni Celiberto , Marco Radici , Pieter Taels

Generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (GTMDs), as mother funtions of transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) and generalized parton distributions (GPDs), encode the most general parton structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-01 Xuan Luo , Hao Sun

Momentum and spatial distributions of quarks and gluons inside hadrons are typically encoded in the so-called generalized parton distributions (GPDs). GPDs are multi-dimensional quantities that are very challenging to extract, both…

Within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework, we systematically investigate the subleading-twist (twist-3) generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the proton's valence quarks beyond the Wandzura--Wilczek (WW) approximation. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Ziqi Zhang , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We study the chiral-odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the $\bar{u}$ and $\bar{d}$ quarks inside the proton at zero skewness using the overlap representation within the light cone formalism. Using the light cone wave functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-23 Xiaoyan Luan , Zhun Lu

We investigate the helicity dependent generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in momentum as well as transverse position (impact) spaces for up and down quarks in a proton when the momentum transfer in both the transverse and longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-28 Chandan Mondal

We develop a light-front model of the proton to investigate the twist-3 chiral-even generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of light sea quarks. In this framework, sea quarks are treated as spin-\(\frac{1}{2}\) active partons, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Parashmani Thakuria , Madhurjya Lalung , Jayanta Kumar Sarma

We compute the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of valence quarks, sea quarks, and gluons in the proton using light-front wave functions obtained within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework, providing a realistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Yiping Liu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present a calculation of the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the photon when the helicity of the initial photon is different from the final photon. We calculate the GPDs using overlaps of photon light-front wave functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair , Vikash Kumar Ojha

The internal image of the proton is unveiled by examining the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness, within the basis light-front quantized environment. Several distributions emerge when a quark is sampled with different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Satvir Kaur , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We evaluate both chirally even and odd generalized parton distributions(GPDs) in the leading twist in a recently proposed quark-diquark model for the proton where the light front wavefunctions are constructed from the soft-wall AdS/QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Tanmay Maji , Chandan Mondal , Dipankar Chakrabarti

We compute the complete set of the leading-twist gluon and sea-quark generalized transverse momentum distributions (GTMDs) in the small-$x$, or eikonal, approximation at vanishing skewness $\xi = 0$. All the gluon GTMDs become expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Sanjin Benić , Yoshikazu Hagiwara , Boris Šarić , Eric Andreas Vivoda

We present a systematic study of twist-3 generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for $\bar{u}$ and $\bar{d}$ sea quarks in the proton at zero skewness ($\xi=0$) using the light-cone formalism with overlap representation. The proton wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Xiaoyan Luan , Zhun Lu

Potential experimental signatures of gluon generalized transverse momentum-dependent distributions (GTMDs) are proposed via exclusive heavy (axial-)vector meson production in lepton-proton collisions. Within the framework of collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Shohini Bhattacharya , David DeAngelo , Lei Yang , Duxin Zheng , Jian Zhou

While the form factors and parton distributions provide separately the shape of the proton in coordinate and momentum spaces, a more powerful imaging of the proton structure can be obtained through phase-space distributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiangdong Ji

We perform a quenched lattice calculation of the first moment of twist-two generalized parton distribution functions of the proton, and assess the total quark (spin and orbital angular momentum) contribution to the spin of the proton.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Göckeler , R. Horsley , D. Pleiter , P. E. L. Rakow , A. Schäfer , G. Schierholz , W. Schroers

The total gluon helicity in a polarized proton, measurable in high-energy scattering, is shown to be the large momentum limit of a gauge-invariant but non-local, frame-dependent gluon spin $\vec{E}\times \vec{A}_\perp$ in QCD. This opens a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-16 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We present the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the valence quarks of the pion and the kaon in both momentum space and position space within the basis light-front quantization framework. These GPDs are obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-16 Lekha Adhikari , Chandan Mondal , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We obtain all the leading-twist quark generalized parton distributions (GPDs) inside the proton at nonzero skewness within the basis light-front quantization framework. We employ the light-front wave functions of the proton from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Yiping Liu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary