Volume 334 - The 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2018) - Hadron Structure
Quasi-PDFs from Twisted mass fermions at the physical point
A. Scapellato*, C. Alexandrou, K. Cichy, M. Constantinou, K. Hadjiyiannakou, K. Jansen and F. Steffens
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Published on: May 29, 2019
Abstract
We present results for the flavor non-singlet u-d parton distribution functions within the nucleon using the quasi-PDF approach. The lattice calculation is performed by employing the twisted mass formulation and two gauge ensembles, having $N_f = 2$ and $N_f = 2 + 1 + 1$ dynamical fermions with masses tuned to their physical value. For the $N_f = 2$ physical point ensemble, the unpolarized, helicity and transversity distributions are computed for three values of the nucleon momentum, namely [6, 8, 10]$\pi$/L corresponding to [0.83,1.11,1.38] GeV. Upon renormalization, we find that, as the nucleon momentum increases, the lattice results approach the phenomenological distributions resulting from analyses of deep inelastic scattering data, opening a promising path for a direct evaluation of parton distributions from the QCD Lagrangian. For the $N_f = 2 + 1 + 1$ physical point ensemble, we present preliminary results for the unpolarized distribution extracted from a nucleon boosted by 8$\pi$/L or 0.97 GeV.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.334.0095
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