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      Axial charges of hyperons and charmed baryons using Nf=2+1+1 twisted mass fermions 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Kallidonis, Christos (2016)
      The axial couplings of the low lying baryons are evaluated using a total of five ensembles of dynamical twisted mass fermion gauge configurations. The simulations are performed using the Iwasaki gauge action and two ...
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      A complete non-perturbative renormalization prescription for quasi-PDFs 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Cichy, K.; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Panagopoulos, Haralambos G.; Steffens, F. (2017)
      In this work we present, for the first time, the non-perturbative renormalization for the unpolarized, helicity and transversity quasi-PDFs, in an RI′ scheme. The proposed prescription addresses simultaneously all aspects ...
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      Direct Evaluation of the Quark Content of Nucleons from Lattice QCD at the Physical Point 

      Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Koutsou, Giannis; Avilés-Casco, A. V. (2016)
      We evaluate the light, strange, and charm scalar content of the nucleon using one lattice QCD ensemble generated with two degenerate light quarks with mass fixed to their physical value. We use improved techniques to ...
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      Disconnected diagrams with twisted-mass fermions 

      Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Finkenrath, J.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Koutsou, Giannis; Avilés-Casco, A. V.; Volmer, J. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2016)
      The latest results from the Twisted-Mass collaboration on disconnected diagrams at the physical value of the pion mass are presented. In particular, we focus on the sigma terms, the axial charges and the momentum fraction, ...
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      Disconnected quark loop contributions to nucleon observables in lattice QCD 

      Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Drach, V.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Koutsou, Giannis; Vaquero, A. (2014)
      We perform a high statistics calculation of disconnected fermion loops on graphics processing units for a range of nucleon matrix elements extracted using lattice QCD. The isoscalar electromagnetic and axial vector form ...
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      Disconnected quark loop contributions to nucleon observables using Nf = 2 twisted clover fermions at the physical value of the light quark mass 

      Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Koutsou, Giannis; Avilés-Casco, A. V. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2015)
      We compute the disconnected quark loops contributions entering the determination of nucleon observables, by using a Nf = 2 ensemble of twisted mass fermions with a clover term at a pION mass mπ = 133 MeV. We employ exact ...
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      The electric dipole moment of the neutron from Nf = 2+1+1 twisted mass fermions 

      Petschlies, Marcus; Alexandrou, Constantia; Athenodorou, A.; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Koutsou, Giannis; Ottnad, K. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2015)
      We extract the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) dn on configurations produced with Nf = 2+1+1 twisted mass fermions with lattice spacing of a ≃ 0.082fm and a light quark mass that correpsonds to Mπ ≃ 373 MeV. We do ...
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      Erratum: Nucleon and pion structure with lattice QCD simulations at physical value of the pion mass (Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2015) 92 (114513)) 

      Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Dimopoulos, Petros; Frezzotti, R.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Kostrzewa, B.; Koutsou, Giannis; Mangin-Brinet, M.; Oehm, M.; Rossi, G. C.; Urbach, C.; Wenger, U. (2016)
      We present results on the nucleon scalar, axial, and tensor charges as well as on the momentum fraction and the helicity and transversity moments. The pion momentum fraction is also presented. The computation of these key ...
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      Evaluation of disconnected quark loops for hadron structure using GPUs 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Drach, V.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Koutsou, Giannis; Strelchenko, A.; Vaquero, A. (2014)
      A number of stochastic methods developed for the calculation of fermion loops are investigated and compared, in particular with respect to their efficiency when implemented on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We assess ...
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      Evaluation of fermion loops applied to the calculation of the η ′ mass and the nucleon scalar and electromagnetic form factors 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Koutsou, Giannis; O Cais, A.; Strelchenko, A. (2012)
      The exact evaluation of the disconnected diagram contributions to the flavor-singlet pseudo-scalar meson mass, the nucleon σ-term and the nucleon electromagnetic form factors is carried out utilizing GPGPU technology with ...
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      First moment of the flavour octet nucleon parton distribution function using lattice QCD 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Dinter, S.; Drach, V.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Koutsou, Giannis; Vaquero, A. (2015)
      Abstract: We perform a lattice computation of the flavour octet contribution to the average quark momentum in the nucleon, (Formula presented.). In particular, we fully take the disconnected contributions into account in ...
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      First physics results at the physical pion mass from Nf=2 Wilson twisted mass fermions at maximal twist 

      Petschlies, Marcus; Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Burger, F.; Constantinou, Martha; Dimopoulos, Petros; Frezzotti, R.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Helmes, C.; Jansen, K.; Jost, C.; Kallidonis, Christos; Knippschild, B.; Kostrzewa, B.; Koutsou, Giannis; Liu, L.; Mangin-Brinet, M.; Ottnad, K.; Pientka, G.; Rossi, G. C.; Urbach, C.; Wenger, U.; Werner, M. (2017)
      We present physics results from simulations of QCD using Nf=2 dynamical Wilson twisted mass fermions at the physical value of the pion mass. These simulations are enabled by the addition of the clover term to the twisted ...
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      A lattice calculation of parton distributions 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Cichy, K.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Steffens, F.; Wiese, C. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2016)
      We present results for the x dependence of the unpolarized, helicity, and transversity isovector quark distributions in the proton using lattice QCD, employing the method of quasi-distributions proposed by Ji in 2013. ...
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      Lattice calculation of parton distributions 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Cichy, K.; Drach, V.; Garcia-Ramos, E.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Steffens, F.; Wiese, C. (2015)
      We report on our exploratory study for the direct evaluation of the parton distribution functions from lattice QCD, based on a recently proposed new approach. We present encouraging results using N f = 2 + 1 + 1 twisted ...
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      Looking at the gluon moment of the nucleon with dynamical twisted mass fermions 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Drach, V.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kostrzewa, B.; Wiese, C. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2013)
      To understand the structure of hadrons it is important to know the PDF of their constituents, the quarks and gluons. In our work we aim to compute the first moment of the gluon PDF h(x)ig for the nucleon. We follow two ...
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      Neutron electric dipole moment using Nf=2+1+1 twisted mass fermions 

      Petschlies, Marcus; Alexandrou, Constantia; Athenodorou, A.; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Koutsou, Giannis; Ottnad, K. (2016)
      We evaluate the neutron electric dipole moment |d→N| using lattice QCD techniques. The gauge configurations analyzed are produced by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration using Nf=2+1+1 twisted mass fermions at one value ...
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      Nucleon and pion structure with lattice QCD simulations at physical value of the pion mass 

      Abdel-Rehim, A.; Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Dimopoulos, Petros; Frezzotti, R.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Kostrzewa, B.; Koutsou, Giannis; Mangin-Brinet, M.; Oehm, M.; Rossi, G. C.; Urbach, C.; Wenger, U. (2015)
      We present results on the nucleon scalar, axial, and tensor charges as well as on the momentum fraction, and the helicity and transversity moments. The pion momentum fraction is also presented. The computation of these key ...
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      Nucleon electromagnetic and axial form factors with Nf=2 twisted mass fermions at the physical point 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Kallidonis, Christos; Koutsou, Giannis; Jansen, K.; Ottnad, K.; Vaquero, A. (Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2016)
      We present results for the nucleon electromagnetic and axial form factors using an Nf=2 twisted mass fermion ensemble with pion mass of about 131 MeV. We use multiple sink-source separations to identify excited state ...
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      Nucleon electromagnetic form factors using lattice simulations at the physical point 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Koutsou, Giannis; Vaquero Aviles-Casco, A. (2017)
      We present results for the nucleon electromagnetic form factors using an ensemble of maximally twisted mass clover-improved fermions with pion mass of about 130 MeV. We use multiple sink-source separations and three analysis ...
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      Nucleon scalar and tensor charges using lattice QCD simulations at the physical value of the pION mass 

      Alexandrou, Constantia; Constantinou, Martha; Dimopoulos, Petros; Frezzotti, R.; Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos; Jansen, K.; Kallidonis, Christos; Kostrzewa, B.; Koutsou, Giannis; Mangin-Brinet, M.; Vaquero Avilès-Casco, A.; Wenger, U. (2017)
      We present results on the light, strange and charm nucleon scalar and tensor charges from lattice QCD, using simulations with Nf=2 flavors of twisted mass clover-improved fermions with a physical value of the pION mass. ...