Gluon Parton Distribution of the Pion and Nucleon from Lattice QCD

Abstract

We present the $x$-dependent nucleon and pion gluon distribution from lattice QCD using the pseudo-PDF approach, on lattice ensembles with $2+1+1$ flavors of highly improved staggered quarks (HISQ), generated by MILC Collaboration. We use clover fermions for the valence action and momentum smearing to achieve pion boost momentum up to 2.56~GeV on three lattice spacings $a\approx 0.9,0.12$ and 0.15~fm and three pion masses $M_{\pi }\approx 220$, 310 and 690~MeV. We compare our pion and preliminary nucleon gluon results with the determination by global fits.

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, The 38th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE2021