7–11 Sept 2020
Center for Nuclear Femtography (SURA) and Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (SBU/BNL)
US/Eastern timezone

Twist-3 PDFs from lattice QCD: g_T(x)

11 Sept 2020, 11:20
12m
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Speaker

Krzysztof Cichy (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Description

We present a lattice exploration of the isovector flavor combination of the nucleon's twist-3 helicity PDF g_T(x), using twisted mass clover fermions. We employ the quasi-distribution approach at three values of the nucleon boost up to 1.7 GeV to connect the lattice-extracted matrix elements, renormalized in the RI/MOM scheme, to light-cone distributions, applying the matching procedure that we developed in parallel. We also calculate the twist-2 helicity distribution g_1(x) to test the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation for g_T(x) and find that it works well for a broad range of Bjorken-x.

Primary authors

Shohini Bhattacharya (Graduate Student) Krzysztof Cichy (Adam Mickiewicz University) Martha Constantinou (Temple University) Andreas Metz (Temple University) Aurora Scapellato (Adam Mickiewicz University) Fernanda Steffens (University of Bonn)

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