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Flavor Structure of the Nucleon Sea from Lattice QCD

Flavor Structure of the Nucleon Sea from Lattice QCD. Jiunn-Wei Chen National Taiwan U. Collaborators: Huey-Wen Lin, Saul D. Cohen, Xiangdong Ji arXiv: 1402.1462. Lattice PDF: from Moments to the Sea. Quark PDF in a proton:

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Flavor Structure of the Nucleon Sea from Lattice QCD

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  1. Flavor Structure of the Nucleon Sea from Lattice QCD Jiunn-Wei Chen National Taiwan U. Collaborators: Huey-Wen Lin, Saul D. Cohen, Xiangdong Ji arXiv: 1402.1462

  2. Lattice PDF: from Moments to the Sea • Quark PDF in a proton: • Euclidean lattice: light cone operators cannot be distinguished from local operators • Moments of PDF given by ME of local twist-2 operators; LPDF limited to first few moments; Sea quarks cannot be isolated • until X. Ji’s proposal came alone in 2013… .

  3. Review: PDF • Quark PDF in a proton: • Taylor expansion yields symmetric traceless twist-2 operators: • Boost invariant in the z-direction, rest frame OK • Quark bilinear op. always on the light cone .

  4. What if the quark bilinear is slightly away from the light cone (space-like) in the proton rest frame? • Then one can find a frame where the quark bilinear is of equal time but the proton is moving. .

  5. Review: Ji’s LPDF • Taylor expansion yields op. symmetric but not traceless .

  6. Review: Ji’s LPDF • LHS: trace, twist-4 corrections • RHS: trace • One loop matching • an OPE.

  7. What do we expect to see on the lattice? • Suppose LPDF is the CTEQ PDF at

  8. in the Fourier Space

  9. First (isovector) LPDF Computation • Lattice: • Fermions: MILC highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ) Clover (valence) • Gauge fields/links: hypercubic (HYP) smearing, 461 config. • n = 1,2,3…

  10. Corrections • Twist-4: Parameterized

  11. Corrections • Computed to all orders in • Each moment rescaled by a factor

  12. RG of Wilson Coefficient • Relates . of different and

  13. One loop matching • If is not a smooth limit, then additional operator has to be added to match the theories with infinite or finite • This could be due to the limits of taking the transverse momentum cut-off and the longitudinal momentum to infinity do not commute. • One loop matching of the non-singlet case suggests the limit is smooth (Xiong, Ji, Zhang, Zhao)

  14. One loop matching • Daughter parton’s momentum can be larger than the mother’s at finite . Thus, can be of any value, not bounded by unity. Only is possible and the limit is smooth. • This also helps to regularize the double pole in the kernel. • Still need to match to scheme and do lattice perturbation (with the smeared action; gauge fixing breaks gauge symmetry?)

  15. Procedures • Stepwise evolution with small steps • Correcting for effect (to all orders) • Extrapolating the effect

  16. Quark mass effect!

  17. Detmold, Melnitchouk, Thomas (2001)

  18. Outlook • Wee partons, a good test to this approach---smaller quark mass • If it works, lots of things to do: LCW, PDF, GPD, TMD (maybe)… • Boosting a problem w/ finite T? • Observables related to new physics search at LHC? Jet physics?

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