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Skewness-dependent moments of the pion GPD from nonlocal quark-bilinear correlators
Phys. Rev. D 113, 014505 – Published 20 January, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/hrb2-47zm
Abstract
We present lattice QCD calculations of the odd Mellin moments of pion valence-quark generalized parton distribution up to fifth order and for the skewness range using operator product expansion of bilocal quark-bilinear operators. The calculations are performed on an ensemble with lattice spacing and valence pion mass 300 MeV, employing boosted pion states with momenta up to 2.428 GeV and momentum transfers reaching . We employ ratio-scheme renormalization and next-to-leading logarithmic resummed perturbative matching. At zero skewness, our results are consistent with previous lattice studies. By combining matrix elements at multiple values of skewness and momentum transfer, skewness-dependent moments are obtained through simultaneous polynomiality-constrained fits.
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