Contributor info: Dr Martha Constantinou

Shohini Bhattacharya, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Andreas Metz, Aurora Scapellato, Fernanda Steffens

SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 057 (2022) · published 12 July 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

Twist-3 partonic distributions contain important information that characterizes nucleon's structure. In this work, we show our lattice exploration of the twist-3 PDFs $g_T(x)$, and $h_L(x)$. We also present our preliminary results on the twist-3 GPD $\tilde{G}_2(x)$. We use the quasi-distribution approach to connect the lattice-extracted matrix elements, renormalized in the RI/MOM scheme, to light-cone distributions, applying the matching procedure that we developed in parallel. We also calculate the twist-2 counterparts of $g_T(x)$ and $h_L(x)$, i.e. $g_1(x)$, and $h_1(x)$, and test the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation.

Shohini Bhattacharya, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Andreas Metz, Aurora Scapellato, Fernanda Steffens

SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 056 (2022) · published 12 July 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

The quasi-PDF approach, proposed by X. Ji in 2013, has made it possible to directly extract light-cone PDFs from lattice QCD. This approach relies on the extraction of matrix elements of space-like operators for fast-moving hadrons. Quasi-PDFs can be related to the light-cone PDFs through a perturbatively calculable matching coefficient. We explore the formalism of matching, for the very first time, for the twist-3 PDFs $g_{T}(x)$, $e(x)$ and $h_{L}(x)$. In this work, we address the non-trivialities involved in the extraction of the matching coefficient due to the presence of (singular) zero-mode contributions.