Higher Moments of Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD at the Physical Point

5 May 2026, 12:40
20m
Sala IMPERIALE A, First Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala IMPERIALE A, First Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG1 Structure Functions and Parton Densities WG1 Structure functions and parton densities

Speaker

Emilio Taggi (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Bonn University)

Description

Using the standard tools of Euclidean lattice QCD, we present a determination of the third Mellin moments $\left<x^2\right>$ of nucleon's unpolarized, polarized and transversity parton distribution functions.
Two lattice QCD ensembles at the physical pion mass are used: these were generated using a tree-level Symanzik-improved gauge action and $2+1$ flavor tree-level improved Wilson Clover fermions coupling via 2-level HEX-smearing.
Leveraging a wide set of interpolating operators, two extraction methods for the matrix elements, data driven priors to control excited states in multi-states fits, and the automatic inclusion of model uncertainties via bootstrapped model averages, we are able to extract values of the third Mellin Moments that we can compare to previous lattice and phenomenological results.
The data analysis procedure is explained and the obtained results are discussed.

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Author

Emilio Taggi (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Bonn University)

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