28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026
Sun Hall Hotel
Asia/Nicosia timezone

Flavor decomposition of the nucleon axial and tensor charges from lattice QCD

29 Sept 2026, 17:00
1h 30m
Sun Hall Hotel

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Athinon Avenue 7, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus

Speaker

Christos Iona (University of Cyprus & The Cyprus Institute)

Description

We determine the nucleon axial and tensor charges at the continuum limit by analyzing four $N_f=2+1+1$ twisted mass fermion ensembles, with all quark masses tuned to approximately their physical values. We include both connected and disconnected contributions to determine the isovector and isoscalar charges and their flavor decomposition. Systematic uncertainties from excited-state contamination and the continuum extrapolation are estimated using the Akaike Information Criterion. The axial charge provides crucial information on the intrinsic spin carried by quarks in the nucleon, while the tensor charge is an important input for searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Author

Christos Iona (University of Cyprus & The Cyprus Institute)

Co-authors

Antonio Evangelista Constantia Alexandrou Ferenc Pittler (The Cyprus Institute) Dr Gregoris Spanoudes (University of Cyprus) Simone Bacchio (The Cyprus Institute)

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