2021 journal article
Global QCD Analysis of Pion Parton Distributions with Threshold Resummation
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 127(23).
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We perform the first global QCD analysis of pion valence, sea quark, and gluon distributions within a Bayesian Monte Carlo framework with threshold resummation on Drell-Yan cross sections at next-to-leading log accuracy. Exploring various treatments of resummation, we find that the large-x asymptotics of the valence quark distribution βΌ(1-x)^{Ξ²_{v}} can differ significantly, with Ξ²_{v} ranging from β1 to >2.5 at the input scale. Regardless of the specific implementation, however, the resummation induced redistribution of the momentum between valence quarks and gluons boosts the total momentum carried by gluons to β40%, increasing the gluon contribution to the pion mass to β40 MeV.
