Transverse structure of nucleon parton distributions from lattice QCD

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Sep 10;93(11):112001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.112001. Epub 2004 Sep 9.

Abstract

This work presents the first calculation in lattice QCD of three moments of spin-averaged and spin-polarized generalized parton distributions in the proton. It is shown that the slope of the associated generalized form factors decreases significantly as the moment increases, indicating that the transverse size of the light-cone quark distribution decreases as the momentum fraction of the struck parton increases.