Light-Cone Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD
Abstract
We extract parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon from lattice QCD using an ensemble of gauge field configurations simulated with light quark masses fixed to their physical values. Theoretical and algorithmic improvements that allow such a calculation include momentum smearing to reach large nucleon boosts with reduced statistical errors, nonperturbative renormalization, target mass corrections, and a novel modified matching of lattice QCD results to connect to what is extracted from experimental measurements. We give results on the unpolarized and helicity PDFs in the modified minimal subtraction scheme at a scale of 2 GeV and reproduce the main features of the experimentally determined quantities, showing an overlap for a range of Bjorken-x values. This first direct nonperturbative evaluation opens a most promising path to compute PDFs in an ab initio way on the lattice and provides a framework for investigating also a wider class of similar quantities, which require the evaluation of hadronic matrix elements of nonlocal operators.
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
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- 1469749
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- OSTI ID: 1565693
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- AC05-00OR22725
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 121 Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
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Alexandrou, Constantia, Cichy, Krzysztof, Constantinou, Martha, Jansen, Karl, Scapellato, Aurora, and Steffens, Fernanda. Light-Cone Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.112001.
Alexandrou, Constantia, Cichy, Krzysztof, Constantinou, Martha, Jansen, Karl, Scapellato, Aurora, & Steffens, Fernanda. Light-Cone Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.112001.
Alexandrou, Constantia, Cichy, Krzysztof, Constantinou, Martha, Jansen, Karl, Scapellato, Aurora, and Steffens, Fernanda. Sat .
"Light-Cone Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD". United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.112001.
@article{osti_1469749,
title = {Light-Cone Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD},
author = {Alexandrou, Constantia and Cichy, Krzysztof and Constantinou, Martha and Jansen, Karl and Scapellato, Aurora and Steffens, Fernanda},
abstractNote = {We extract parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon from lattice QCD using an ensemble of gauge field configurations simulated with light quark masses fixed to their physical values. Theoretical and algorithmic improvements that allow such a calculation include momentum smearing to reach large nucleon boosts with reduced statistical errors, nonperturbative renormalization, target mass corrections, and a novel modified matching of lattice QCD results to connect to what is extracted from experimental measurements. We give results on the unpolarized and helicity PDFs in the modified minimal subtraction scheme at a scale of 2 GeV and reproduce the main features of the experimentally determined quantities, showing an overlap for a range of Bjorken-x values. This first direct nonperturbative evaluation opens a most promising path to compute PDFs in an ab initio way on the lattice and provides a framework for investigating also a wider class of similar quantities, which require the evaluation of hadronic matrix elements of nonlocal operators.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.112001},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {9}
}
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