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F. de Soto

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A Continuum Schwinger Method to Study the Pion's Generalized Parton Distribution

Generalised Parton Distributions (GPDs) provide multidimensional insight into hadron structure and are particularly relevant for the pion, whose dynamics are intimately linked to chiral symmetry breaking. We introduce a novel modelling strategy for pion GPDs that satisfies all QCD constraints by construction: support, polynomiality, positivity, and the soft-pion theorem. The approach is illustrated with a simple algebraic model, which is evolved and used to compute deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) Compton Form Factors at next-to-leading order. Our results indicate that gluons dominate the pion response at the Electron Ion Collider kinematics.

hep-ph

A Frenet frame analysis of protein geometry: hints for secondary structure assignments

This paper deepens into the analysis of the protein secondary structure using Frenet frame to describe the curvature and torsion of the discrete curve formed by the protein $α$-carbons. We show how a simple criterion based on the evaluation of the curvature and torsion of the discrete curve can be useful to pinpoint the presence of some secondary and supersecondary structures in proteins. Moreover, the description of proteins as fixed points of an effective action inspired by an $U(1)$ gauge model is strongly supported by the curvature and torsion observed over a large dataset of proteins in the Protein Data Bank.

physics.bio-ph

Three-gluon vertex in Landau-gauge from quenched-lattice QCD in general kinematics

We report on a novel and extensive lattice QCD analysis for the three-gluon vertex from quenched lattice-QCD simulations. Using standard Wilson action, we have computed the three-gluon vertex beyond the usual kinematic restriction to the symmetric $(q^2 = r^2 = p^2)$ and soft-gluon $(p = 0)$ cases where it depends on a single momentum scale. The so-dubbed bisectoral case $(r^2 = q^2 \ne p^2)$, where the transversely projected vertex can be cast in terms of three independent tensors, have been the object of a recent exhaustive scrutiny, also shown in this communication. Herein, beyond this special case, results for kinematic configurations with three different squared momenta are also presented. All data considered, the lattice estimate of the three-gluon vertex exhibits a clear dominance of the tree-level tensor form factor.

hep-lat

Restoring rotational invariance for lattice QCD propagators

This note presents a method to reduce the discretization errors appearing when solving a Quantum Field Theory in a hypercubic lattice in both position and momentum-space. The method exploits the artifacts that break rotational symmetry to recover rotationally invariant results for two-point Green functions. We show that a combination of the results obtained in position and momentum space can be useful to signal the presence of rotationally invariant artifacts making use of their approximate Fourier transforms in the continuum. The method will be introduced using a Klein-Gordon propagator, and a direct application to gluon propagator in quenched lattice QCD will be given.

hep-lat

Three different approaches to the same interaction: the Yukawa model in nuclear physics

After a brief discussion of the meaning of the potential in quantum mechanics, we examine the results of the Yukawa model (scalar meson exchange) for the nucleon-nucleon interaction in three different dynamical frameworks: the non-relativistic dynamics of the Schrodinger equation, the relativistic quantum mechanics of the Bethe-Salpeter and Light-Front equations and the lattice solution of the Quantum Field Theory, obtained in the quenched approximation.

nucl-th

About the Yukawa model on a lattice in the quenched approximation

We study the Yukawa model on a 4-dimensional Euclidean lattice in the quenched approximation. A particular attention is given to the singularities of the Dirac operator in the phase diagram. A careful analysis of a particular limiting case shows that size effects can be huge, questioning the quenched approximation. This is confirmed by a Monte-Carlo simulation in this limit case and without the quenched approximation. We include also some results concerning the symmetries of this model.

hep-lat

The Nuclear Yukawa Model on a Lattice

We present the results of the quantum field theory approach to nuclear Yukawa model obtained by standard lattice techniques. We have considered the simplest case of two identical fermions interacting via a scalar meson exchange. Calculations have been performed using Wilson fermions in the quenched approximation. We found the existence of a critical coupling constant above which the model cannot be numerically solved. The range of the accessible coupling constants is below the threshold value for producing two-body bound states. Two-body scattering lengths have been obtained and compared to the non relativistic results.

hep-lat

On the reduction of hypercubic lattice artifacts

This note presents a comparative study of various options to reduce the errors coming from the discretization of a Quantum Field Theory in a lattice with hypercubic symmetry. We show that it is possible to perform an extrapolation towards the continuum which is able to eliminate systematically the artifacts which break the O(4) symmetry.

hep-lat

Quark propagator and vertex: systematic corrections of hypercubic artifacts from lattice simulations

This is the first part of a study of the quark propagator and the vertex function of the vector current on the lattice in the Landau gauge and using both Wilson-clover and overlap actions. In order to be able to identify lattice artifacts and to reach large momenta we use a range of lattice spacings. The lattice artifacts turn out to be exceedingly large in this study. We present a new and very efficient method to eliminate the hypercubic (anisotropy) artifacts based on a systematic expansion on hypercubic invariants which are not SO(4) invariant. A simpler version of this method has been used in previous works. This method is shown to be significantly more efficient than the popular ``democratic'' methods. It can of course be applied to the lattice simulations of many other physical quantities. The analysis indicates a hierarchy in the size of hypercubic artifacts: overlap larger than clover and propagator larger than vertex function. This pleads for the combined study of propagators and vertex functions via Ward identities.

hep-lat