Quark and gluon momentum fractions in the pion and in the kaon
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We present results on the momentum fraction carried by quarks and gluons in the pion and the kaon. We employ three gauge ensembles generated with 𝑁𝑓 = 2 + 1 + 1 Wilson twisted-mass clover-improved fermions with physical quark masses. We perform, for the first time, a continuum extrapolation directly at the physical pion. We find that the total momentum fraction carried by quarks is ⟨𝑥⟩𝜋 𝑞,𝑅 = 0.575(79) and ⟨𝑥⟩𝐾 𝑞,𝑅 = 0.683(50) and by gluons ⟨𝑥⟩𝜋 𝑔,𝑅 = 0.402(53) and ⟨𝑥⟩𝐾 𝑔,𝑅 = 0.422(67) in the pion and in the kaon, respectively, in the MS scheme and at the renormalization scale of 2 GeV. Having computed both the quark and gluon contributions in the continuum limit, we verify the momentum sum, finding 0.984(89) for the pion and 1.13(11) for the kaon.
Date Issued
2025-02-17
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Conference Item
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en
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Alexandrou, Constantia | |
Bacchio, Simone | |
Constantinou, Martha | |
Delmar, Joseph | |
Finkenrath, Jacob | |
Kostrzewa, Bartosz | |
Rodriguez Chacon, Luis Alberto | |
Spanoudes, Gregoris | |
Steffens, Fernanda | |
Urbach, Carsten |
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Sissa Medialab
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open.access