20–24 Jan 2020
Bormio, Italy
Europe/Berlin timezone

Parton distribution functions from Lattice QCD

21 Jan 2020, 18:40
20m
Bormio, Italy

Bormio, Italy

Extended Contribution Tuesday Afternoon

Speaker

Savvas Zafeiropoulos (Universitaet Heidelberg)

Description

The light-cone definition of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) does not allow for a direct ab initio determination employing methods of Lattice QCD simulations that naturally take place in Euclidean spacetime. In this presentation we focus on pseudo-PDFs where the starting point is the equal time hadronic matrix element with the quark and anti-quark fields separated by a finite distance. We focus on Ioffe-time distributions, which are functions of the Ioffe-time ν, and can be understood as the Fourier transforms of parton distribution functions with respect to the momentum fraction variable x. We present lattice results for the case of the nucleon and the pion and we also perform a comparison with the pertinent phenomenological determinations.

Topic Hadron Physics

Primary authors

Prof. Kostas Orginos (WM and JLAB) Prof. Anatoly Radyushkin (ODU and JLAB) Dr Joe Karpie (Columbia University) Dr Balint Joo (JLAB) Dr Raza Suffian (JLAB) Prof. Alexander Rothkopf (Stavanger University) Savvas Zafeiropoulos (Universitaet Heidelberg)

Presentation materials