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

Parton Distribution Functions of the Nucleon from Twisted Mass Fermions with Physical Pion Mass

27 Jul 2026, 14:00
20m
Benjamin Banneker A (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Benjamin Banneker A

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

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

Speaker

Gabriele Pierini (The Cyprus Institute, TU Berlin)

Description

We present the unpolarized and helicity Parton Distributions (PDFs) of the nucleon using an ensemble of $N_f$=2+1+1 twisted mass clover-improved fermions with masses tuned to their physical values and lattice spacing of $a=0.080$ fm. We analyze seven momentum boosts up to $P_z=1.69$ GeV. At boost $P_z=1.21$ GeV we analyze three source-sink separations, in order to investigate possible excited state contamination. We investigate both LaMET and Short Distance Factorization to obtain the light-cone PDFs and their moments, respectively. Within the LaMET framework, we investigate an alternative method for the reconstruction of the x-dependent quasi-distributions using Bayes-Gauss-Fourier Transform and compare it to Backus-Gilbert.

Author

Gabriele Pierini (The Cyprus Institute, TU Berlin)

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