Nucleon-pion-state contribution in lattice calculations of moments of parton distribution functions

Abstract

We employ chiral perturbation theory to calculate the nucleon-pion-state contribution to the 3-point correlation functions measured in lattice QCD to compute various moments of parton distribution functions (quark momentum fraction, helicity and transversity moment). We estimate the impact of the nucleon-pion-state contribution on the plateau method for lattice simulations with a physical pion mass. The nucleon-pion-state contribution results in an overestimation of all three moments. The overestimation is at the 5-20% level for source-sink separations of about 1.5 fm.

20 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1606.09385

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