Pion Parton Distributions Using Threshold Resummation
ORAL
Abstract
Following our recent Monte Carlo determination of the pion's PDFs from Drell-Yan (DY) and leading neutron electroproduction data, we extend the analysis by including effects from threshold resummation. At higher orders in the strong coupling, $\alpha_S$, large logarithmic corrections due to soft gluon emissions become important in the $q\bar{q}$ channel near threshold, which can be summed over all orders of $\alpha_S$. However, different prescriptions exist for how the threshold resummation is implemented, for instance, using varying levels of approximation in the Minimal Prescription with cosine, expansion, and double Mellin methods. We report the first Monte Carlo results of the first simultaneous fit to the valence, sea, and gluon distributions in the pion taking into account the ambiguities in the resummation calculations.
*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. The SCGSR program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for the DOE under contract number DE‐SC0014664.
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