First lattice QCD results for Mellin moments of pion and kaon unpolarized PDFs from nonlocal operator matrix elements on a 32^3×64 twisted-mass ensemble at m_π=260 MeV, extracted at NNLO and μ=2 GeV.
First Monte Carlo global QCD analysis of pion parton distributions
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We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, combining $\pi A$ Drell-Yan data with leading neutron electroproduction from HERA within a Monte Carlo approach based on nested sampling. Inclusion of the HERA data allows the pion PDFs to be determined down to much lower values of $x$, with relatively weak model dependence from uncertainties in the chiral splitting function. The combined analysis reveals that gluons carry a significantly higher pion momentum fraction, $\sim 30\%$, than that inferred from Drell-Yan data alone, with sea quarks carrying a somewhat smaller fraction, $\sim 15\%$, at the input scale. Within the same effective theory framework, the chiral splitting function and pion PDFs can be used to describe the $\bar d-\bar u$ asymmetry in the proton.
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