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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
Volume 36, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X21500809
Keywords
Lattice QCD; nucleon distribution; gluon
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- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under ERCAP [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy
- Michigan State University
- US National Science Foundation [PHY 1653405]
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In this study, the first lattice-QCD results were presented to access the x-dependence of the gluon unpolarized PDF of the nucleon. The results show that the fitted gluon PDFs at both pion masses are consistent with global fits in the x > 0.3 region.
The parton distribution functions (PDFs) provide process-independent information about the quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Although the gluon PDF can be obtained from a global fit to experimental data, it is not constrained well in the large-x region. Theoretical gluon-PDF studies are much fewer than those of the quark PDFs. In this work, we present the first lattice-QCD results that access the x-dependence of the gluon unpolarized PDF of the nucleon. The lattice calculation is carried out with nucleon momenta up to 2.16 GeV, lattice spacing a approximate to 0.12 fm, and with valence pion masses of 310 and 690 MeV. We use reduced Ioffe-time distributions to cancel the renormalization and implement a one-loop perturbative pseudo-PDF gluon matching. We neglect mixing of the gluon operator with the quark singlet sector. Our matrix-element results in coordinate space are consistent with those obtained from the global PDF fits of CT18 NNLO and NNPDF3.1 NNLO. Our fitted gluon PDFs at both pion masses are consistent with global fits in the x > 0.3 region.
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