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Daniel Reitinger

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Double Parton Distributions in the nucleon: Lattice parameter dependence

To make full use of the HL-LHC, especially in the search for BSM physics, all Standard Model backgrounds have to be understood with increased precision. This is especially difficult for Double Parton Interactions (DPIs) and more generally Multi Parton Interactions (MPIs), which are very difficult to isolate precisely in experiment. DPIs are parameterized by Double Parton Distributions (DPDs) and the lattice determination of the latter is, therefore, especially attractive. In our previous work on DPDs on the lattice, we focused on the results obtained from one gauge ensemble with higher than physical pion mass. In this work, we extend our efforts by investigating artifacts introduced by finite volume and the dependence on the lattice spacing. Moreover, we consider the dependence on the mass parameters. This study is carried out by employing the Wilson-Clover fermion gauge ensembles generated by the CLS collaboration.

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Kinematic enhancement for nucleon interpolators

The reliable treatment of highly boosted hadrons is crucial for many lattice QCD applications. For all these cases the kinematically enhanced interpolators promise very significant improvements and are, therefore, ever more often used in recent calculations, especially for highly boosted mesons like the pion. Motivated by, e.g., the physics program of the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) in the US and Electron-Ion collider in China (EIcC), we systematically benchmark our code for the unpolarized isovector nucleon quark matrix elements extracted at large source-sink separations, where excited state artifacts are significantly suppressed. We find that the precision of the renormalized nucleon matrix elements is typically improved by an order of magnitude at momentum $P_z\sim2.5$ GeV. By comparing the results from three CLS ensembles with different lattice spacings $a$ but the same pion mass, we observe no statistically significant dependence on $a$ in the renormalized matrix elements at nearly identical values of $P_z$. These encouraging results suggest that the use of kinematically improved operators is highly advantageous for parton physics calculations and can be extended to a broader class of baryon observables, making them a promising candidate for a standard component of modern lattice QCD.

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Extracting Mellin moments of double parton distributions from lattice data

Reconstructing Mellin moments of double parton distributions from calculations on a Euclidean lattice requires taking an integral over a variable that may be regarded as a Ioffe time. The Fourier conjugate of this variable plays the role of a kinematic skewness in the double parton distributions. We discuss the skewness dependence of the relevant hadronic correlation functions. Using several models, we study the impact of this dependence on extracting moments of double parton distributions from existing lattice data.

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Double parton distributions with flavor interference from lattice QCD

We study double parton distributions with flavor interference in the nucleon and compare them with previous results for the flavor diagonal case. We investigate both unpolarized and polarized partons. We compare our lattice results with those obtained from the simple description of the proton in terms of an SU(6) symmetric three-quark wave function and find that this description fails for both flavor and polarization dependence. We also derive and test a factorization ansatz for the unpolarized flavor interference distribution in terms of single-parton distributions and find that this ansatz fails to a large extent.

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Double parton distributions in the nucleon on the lattice: Flavor interference effects

Information about double parton distributions (DPDs) can be obtained by calculating four-point functions on the lattice. We continue our study on the first DPD Mellin moment of the unpolarized proton by considering interference effects w.r.t. the quark flavor. In our simulation we employ an $n_f = 2 + 1$ ensemble with inverse coupling $\beta = 3.4$, and pseudoscalar masses of $m_\pi = 355~\mathrm{MeV}$ and $m_K = 441~\mathrm{MeV}$. The results are converted to the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$-scheme at the scale $\mu = 2~\mathrm{GeV}$. We analyze the dependence of the considered Mellin moments on the quark polarization and compare our results with quark model predictions.

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