Gluon momentum fraction of the nucleon from lattice QCD

Abstract

We perform a direct calculation of the gluon momentum fraction of the nucleon using maximally twisted mass fermion ensembles with $N_f=2+1+1$ flavors at a pion mass of about $370\mathrm{MeV}$ and a lattice spacing of $a\approx 0.082\mathrm{fm}$ and with $N_f=2$ flavors at the physical pion mass and a lattice spacing of $a\approx 0.093\mathrm{fm}$. In the definition of the gluon operator we employ stout smearing to obtain a statistically significant result for the bare matrix elements. In addition, we perform a lattice perturbative calculation including 2 levels of stout smearing to carry out the mixing and the renormalization of the quark and gluon operators. We find, after conversion to the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ scheme at a scale of $2\mathrm{GeV}$: $⟨x{⟩}_g^R=0.284(23)(23)$ for pion mass of about $370\mathrm{MeV}$ and $⟨x{⟩}_g^R=0.283(23)(15)$ for the physical pion mass.

16 pages, 2 Table, 8 Figures, Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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