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We present the first lattice QCD determination of the light cone gluon helicity correlation parton distribution function (PDF) with numerical evidence toward disfavoring negative gluon polarization in the nucleon. We present a solution for…

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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…

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We present the results that are necessary in the ongoing lattice calculations of the gluon parton distribution functions (PDFs) within the pseudo-PDF approach. We give a classification of possible two-gluon correlator functions and identify…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Ian Balitsky , Wayne Morris , Anatoly Radyushkin

We formulate the basic points of the pseudo-PDF approach to the lattice calculation of polarized gluon PDFs. We present the results of our calculations of the one-loop corrections for the bilocal $G_{\mu \alpha}(z) \widetilde G_{\lambda…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Ian Balitsky , Wayne Morris , Anatoly Radyushkin

We present a state-of-the-art calculation of the unpolarized pion valence-quark distribution in the framework of large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) with improved handling of systematic errors as well as two-loop perturbative matching.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-24 Jack Holligan , Huey-Wen Lin

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

Quasi-PDFs provide a path toward an ab initio calculation of parton distribution functions (PDFs) using lattice QCD. One of the problems faced in calculations of quasi-PDFs is the renormalization of a nonlocal operator. By introducing an…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-07-18 Jeremy Green , Karl Jansen , Fernanda Steffens

We present the results that form the basis for calculations of the unpolarized gluon parton distributions (PDFs) using the pseudo-PDF approach. We give the results for the most complicated box diagram both for gluon bilocal operators with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Ian Balitsky , Wayne Morris , Anatoly Radyushkin

We present the first unbiased determination of spin-dependent, or polarized, Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton. A statistically sound representation of the corresponding uncertainties is achieved by means of the NNPDF…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-04 Emanuele Roberto Nocera

High-energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC offer a stringent test of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the small-$x$, gluon-dominated regime. This study focus on a minimal, gluon-driven framework to describe the charged-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-26 Zhixiang Yang , Jianhong Ruan

In this work, we present the first results on the gluon parton distribution of the kaon from lattice quantum chromodynamics. We carry out the lattice calculation at pion mass around 310~MeV and two lattice spacings, 0.15 and 0.12~fm, using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-07 Alejandro Salas-Chavira , Zhouyou Fan , Huey-Wen Lin

We present a lattice-QCD calculation of the unpolarized isovector parton distribution function (PDF) using ensembles at the physical pion mass with large proton boost momenta $P_z \in \{2.2,2.6,3.0\}$~GeV within the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-05-21 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Luchang Jin , Huey-Wen Lin , Yu-Sheng Liu , Yi-Bo Yang , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

To facilitate lattice QCD calculations of nucleon structute, a set of quasi-parton distributions were recently introduced. These quasi-PDFs were shown to reduce to standard PDFs when the nucleon is boosted to high energies, $P_z\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative quantities describing the relation between a hadron and quarks and gluons within it. We propose to extract PDFs from QCD global analysis of "data" generated by lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

We present a high-statistics lattice QCD determination of the valence parton distribution function (PDF) of the pion, with a mass of 300 MeV, using two very fine lattice spacings of $a=0.06$ fm and 0.04 fm. We reconstruct the $x$-dependent…

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

In the framework of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), parton distribution functions (PDFs) quantify how the momentum and spin of a hadron are divided among its quark and gluon constituents. Two main approaches exist to determine PDFs. The first…

We present preliminary numerical results on the connected piece of the quasi-PDF of pion as determined using Wilson-Clover valence fermions on HISQ ensembles. We discuss its non-perturbative renormalization in RI/MOM scheme with and without…

We present the first lattice-QCD calculation of the nucleon isovector unpolarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) at the physical-continuum limit using Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET). The lattice results are calculated using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-12-01 Huey-Wen Lin , Jiunn-Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

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…