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Feb 24 – 28, 2025
Miami, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus
US/Eastern timezone

Nucleon Parton Distribution Functions from Boosted Correlations in the Coulomb Gauge

Feb 25, 2025, 6:00 PM
2h
Ground floor (Stocker Astro Center)

Ground floor

Stocker Astro Center

Speaker

Jinchen He (University of Maryland, College Park)

Description

Recently, a novel approach has been suggested to compute parton distributions through the use of boosted correlators fixed in the Coulomb gauge from lattice QCD, within the framework of Large-Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET). This approach circumvents the need for Wilson lines, potentially enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of lattice QCD calculations significantly. In this study, we implement the Coulomb gauge method to calculate the unpolarized and helicity parton distribution functions (PDFs) of nucleons. Following a careful investigation of the excited state contamination and various systematic uncertainties, we provide final results of the nucleon PDFs obtained from lattice calculations, which show compatibility with global fits. This research also serves as a benchmark for future broader applications of the Coulomb gauge method, particularly in the computation of transverse-momentum-dependent distributions.

Primary authors

Jinchen He (University of Maryland, College Park) Swagato Mukherjee (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Mr Xiang Gao (BNL&Tsinghua University) Yong Zhao

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