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We report the first nucleon gluon parton distribution function (PDF) using Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET). We focus on the gluon operator which was demonstrated to have the best signal-to-noise in the previous attempt [1] in…

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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…

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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…

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In this paper, we present lattice QCD results for the $x$-dependence of the unpolarized gluon PDF for the proton. We use one ensemble of $N_f=2+1+1$ maximally twisted mass fermions with a clover improvement, and the Iwasaki improved gluon…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-03 Joseph Delmar , Constantia Alexandrou , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou

We present the first lattice-QCD determination of the nucleon gluon parton distribution function (PDF) within the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) framework, employing the hybrid scheme with self renormalization, in the continuum…

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Extracting parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice QCD calculation of quasi-PDFs has been actively pursued in recent years. We extend our proof of the multiplicative renormalizability of quasi-quark operators in Ref. [1] to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Zheng-Yang Li , Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

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

Gluon parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the proton can be calculated directly on Euclidean lattices using large momentum effective theory (LaMET). To realize this goal, one has to find renormalized gluon quasi-PDFs in which power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-11 Jian-Hui Zhang , Xiangdong Ji , Andreas Schäfer , Wei Wang , Shuai Zhao

We present results of the x-dependence of the unpolarized gluon PDF for the proton. We use an $N_f=2+1+1$ ensemble of maximally twisted mass fermions with clover improvement and the Iwasaki improved gluon action. The quark masses are tuned…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-23 Joseph Delmar , Constantia Alexandrou , Krzysztof Cichy , Martha Constantinou , Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou

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 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

We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, with lattice-QCD data on gluonic pseudo--Ioffe-time distributions fitted simultaneously with experimental Drell-Yan and leading neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 William Good , Patrick C. Barry , Huey-Wen Lin , W. Melnitchouk , Alex NieMiera , Nobuo Sato

We present a high-statistics lattice-QCD determination of the kaon gluon parton distribution function and gluon momentum fraction. We use clover valence fermion action to take 1,296,640 kaon-correlator measurements on a HISQ ensemble with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-30 Alex NieMiera , William Good , Huey-Wen Lin

Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations share a defining challenge by requiring a small finite range of spatial separation $z$ between quark/gluon bilinears for controllable power corrections in the perturbative QCD factorization,…

We present the $x$-dependent nucleon and pion 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 Collaboration. We use…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-28 Zhouyou Fan , Huey-Wen Lin

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

We propose a new method to calculate parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice correlations of boosted quarks and gluons in the Coulomb gauge. Compared to the widely used gauge-invariant Wilson-line operators, these correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiang Gao , Wei-Yang Liu , Yong Zhao

Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Akbari Jahan , Diptimonta Neog

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 present a detailed Lattice QCD study of the unpolarized isovector quark Parton Distribution Function (PDF) using large-momentum effective theory framework. We choose a quasi-PDF defined by a spatial correlator which is free from mixing…

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