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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…

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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 the nonperturbatively renormalized nucleon gluon momentum fraction using ensembles with $2+1+1$ flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ), generated by MILC Collaboration. The calculation is done using clover fermions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-03-01 Zhouyou Fan , Huey-Wen Lin , Matthew Zeilbeck

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…

Precise quantification of the structure of nucleons is one of the crucial aims of hadronic physics for the coming years. The expected progress related to ongoing and planned experiments should be accompanied by calculations of partonic…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-05 Manjunath Bhat , Wojciech Chomicki , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Jeremy R. Green , Aurora Scapellato

Large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) provides an approach to directly calculate the $x$-dependence of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) on a Euclidean lattice through power expansion and a perturbative matching. When a parton's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Jack Holligan , Huey-Wen Lin , Rui Zhang , Yong Zhao

The quasi-PDF approach provides a path to computing parton distribution functions (PDFs) using lattice QCD. This approach requires matrix elements of a power-divergent operator in a nucleon at high momentum and one generically expects…

We present the first lattice results on isovector unpolarized and longitudinally polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) at physical pion mass. The PDFs are obtained using the large-momentum effective field theory (LaMET) framework…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-09-12 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Tomomi Ishikawa , Jian-Hui Zhang

In our recent work [1] on lattice QCD calculation of the baryon leading-twist LCDAs within the framework of LaMET, a novel hybrid renormalization scheme is implemented for octet baryon quasi-DAs, yielding reliable results across both…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-15 Mu-Hua Zhang

Large momentum effective theory allows extraction of hadron parton distribution functions in lattice QCD by matching them to quark bilinear matrix elements of hadrons with large momenta. We calculate the matching kernels for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-17 Chien-Yu Chou , Jiunn-Wei Chen

At a low resolution scale with $Q^2={\mu}^2$ corresponding to the nucleon bound state; deep inelastic unpolarized structure functions $F_1(x,{\mu}^2)$ and $F_2(x,{\mu}^2)$ are derived with correct support using the symmetric part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 N. Barik , R. N. Mishra

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 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

High statistics results for the isovector momentum fraction, $\langle x \rangle_{u-d}$, helicity moment, $\langle x \rangle_{\Delta u-\Delta d}$, and the transversity moment, $\langle x\rangle_{\delta u-\delta d}$, of the nucleon are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-11 Santanu Mondal , Rajan Gupta , Sungwoo Park , Boram Yoon , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Bálint Joó , Frank Winter

We present a determination of the non-singlet transversity parton distribution function (PDF) of the nucleon, normalized with respect to the tensor charge at $\mu^2=2$ GeV$^2$ from lattice quantum chromodynamics. We apply the…

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

Large Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET) provides a general framework for computing the multi-dimensional partonic structure of the proton from first principles using lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-04 Yong Zhao

The recently proposed large momentum effective theory (LaMET) of Ji has led to a burst of activity among lattice practitioners to perform and control the first pioneering calculations of the quasi-PDFs of the nucleon. These calculations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 T. J. Hobbs

We report isovector form factors and low moments of isovector structure functions of nucleon from the coarse RIKEN-BNL-Columbia (RBC) and UKQCD joint dynamical (2+1)-flavor domain-wall fermions (DWF) ensembles. The lattice cut off is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-10-02 Shigemi Ohta , Takeshi Yamazaki

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…