Nucleon Parton Structure from Continuum QCD

ORAL

Abstract

The parton structure of the nucleon is investigated using QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSEs). This formalism builds in numerous essential features of QCD, for example, the dressing of parton propagators and dynamical formation of non-pointlike di-quark correlations. All needed elements of the approach, including the nucleon wave function solution from a Poincar\'e covariant Faddeev equation, are encoded in spectral-type representations in the Nakanishi style. This facilitates calculations and the necessary connections between Euclidean and Minkowski metrics. As a first step results for the nucleon quark distribution functions will be presented. The extension to the transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions (TMDs) also be discussed.

Authors

  • Kyle Bednar

    Kent State University

  • Ian Cloet

    Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne National Lab

  • Peter Tandy

    Kent State University