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First Monte Carlo Global Analysis of Nucleon Transversity with Lattice QCD Constraints
H-W Lin1, W Melnitchouk2, A Prokudin2,3
1Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
Abstract:
We report on the first global QCD analysis of the quark transversity distributions in the nucleon from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS), using a new Monte Carlo method based on nested sampling and constraints on the isovector tensor charge g_{T} from lattice QCD. A simultaneous fit to the available SIDIS Collins asymmetry data is compatible with g_{T} values extracted from a comprehensive reanalysis of existing lattice simulations, in contrast to previous analyses, which found significantly smaller g_{T} values. The contributions to the nucleon tensor charge from u and d quarks are found to be δu=0.3(2) and δd=-0.7(2) at a scale Q^{2}=2 GeV^{2}.
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