26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Direct calculation of parton distributions in momentum space from lattice QCD

29 Jul 2026, 09:40
20m
Benjamin Banneker A (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Benjamin Banneker A

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Structure of hadrons and nuclei Structure of hadrons and nuclei

Speaker

Dr Rui Zhang (MIT)

Description

Coulomb-gauge quasi-parton distributions can be computed directly in momentum space on a finite lattice, enabled by the commutativity of their renormalization and Fourier transform. This approach removes the formal inverse problem in coordinate-space methods. Our momentum-space pion quasi-distributions agree with coordinate-space results Fourier transformed with asymptotic extrapolation, indicating that the formal inverse problem in the latter is not a concern at this volume. We further extend the framework to higher dimensions and obtain the first 3D image of the pion directly from lattice QCD.

Author

Dr Rui Zhang (MIT)

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