Lattice calculation of parton distributions
Date
2015Author
Alexandrou, ConstantiaCichy, K.
Drach, V.
Garcia-Ramos, E.
Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos
Jansen, K.
Steffens, F.
Wiese, C.
ISSN
1550-7998Source
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and CosmologyVolume
92Issue
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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 mass fermions with a pion mass of about 370 MeV. The focus of this work is a detailed description of the computation, including the lattice calculation, the matching to an infinite momentum and the nucleon mass correction. In addition, we test the effect of gauge link smearing in the operator to estimate the influence of the Wilson line renormalization, which is yet to be done. © 2015 American Physical Society.