6–9 Jul 2026
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Direct calculation of parton distributions in momentum space from lattice QCD

7 Jul 2026, 13:30
30m
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

ul. prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Cracow, Poland

Speaker

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 practical concern here. We further extend the framework to higher dimensions and obtain the first 3D image of the pion directly from lattice QCD.

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Co-authors

Anthony Grebe (UMD) Daniel Hackett (Fermilab) Michael Wagman (Fermilab) Yong Zhao (Argonne National Laboratory)

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