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Nucleon structure functions from lattice operator product expansion

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2017-06-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Deep-inelastic scattering, in the laboratory and on the lattice, is most instructive for understanding how the nucleon is built from quarks and gluons. The long-term goal is to compute the associated structure functions from first principles. So far this has been limited to model calculations. In this Letter we propose a new method to compute the structure functions directly from the virtual, all-encompassing Compton amplitude, utilizing the operator product expansion. This overcomes issues of renormalization and operator mixing, which so far have hindered lattice calculations of power corrections and higher moments.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01153,
  title  = {Nucleon structure functions from lattice operator product expansion},
  author = {A. J. Chambers and R. Horsley and Y. Nakamura and H. Perlt and P. E. L. Rakow and G. Schierholz and A. Schiller and K. Somfleth and R. D. Young and J. M. Zanotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01153},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures, meets published version (Phys. Rev. Letters)

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