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arxiv: 1404.6680 · v1 · pith:36WLA4JNnew · submitted 2014-04-26 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-lat· nucl-ex· nucl-th

Parton Physics from Large-Momentum Effective Field Theory

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Parton physics, when formulated as light-front correlations, are difficult to study non-perturbatively, despite the promise of light-front quantization. Recently an alternative approach to partons have been proposed by re-visiting original Feynman picture of a hadron moving at asymptotically large momentum. Here I formulate the approach in the language of an effective field theory for a large hadron momentum $P$ in lattice QCD, LaMET for short. I show that using this new effective theory, parton properties, including light-front parton wave functions, can be extracted from lattice observables in a systematic expansion of $1/P$, much like that the parton distributions can be extracted from the hard scattering data at momentum scales of a few GeV.

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