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Isovector parton distribution functions of the proton on a superfine lattice

  • Zhouyou Fan
  • , Xiang Gao
  • , Ruizi Li
  • , Huey Wen Lin
  • , Nikhil Karthik
  • , Swagato Mukherjee
  • , Peter Petreczky
  • , Sergey Syritsyn
  • , Yi Bo Yang
  • , Rui Zhang
  • Michigan State University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Tsinghua University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

We study isovector unpolarized and helicity parton distribution functions (PDF) of the proton within the framework of large-momentum effective theory. We use a gauge ensemble, generated by the MILC Collaboration, with a superfine lattice spacing of 0.042 fm and a pion mass of 310 MeV, enabling us to simultaneously reach sub-Fermi spatial separations and larger nucleon momenta. We compare the spatial dependence of quasi-PDF matrix elements in different renormalization schemes with the corresponding results of the global fits, obtained using one-loop perturbative matching. We present determinations of the first four moments of the unpolarized and helicity PDFs of proton from the Ioffe-time dependence of the isovector matrix elements, obtained by employing a ratio-based renormalization scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere074504
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume102
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2020

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