22–28 Jul 2018
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
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Gluonic structure of spin-1 meson as it becomes unstable using variationally optimized operators

23 Jul 2018, 16:10
20m
105 (Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center)

105

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center

219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824
Parallel Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions

Speaker

Dimitra Pefkou (Student at William and Mary)

Description

We present a first calculation of the first moments of gluon GPDs for a vector rho meson as it becomes unstable. We construct three-point functions in the forward limit using ‘optimized’ operators that interpolate a single state as well as a gluonic operator insertion. The two-point correlation functions have been constructed using the ‘distillation’ method. The correlators are calculated in anisotropic lattices and the two spin-independent and one transversity gluon distributions are extracted. We compare the distributions and the resulting gluon momentum fractions between stable and unstable meson states. We discuss finite volume effects and outline how to apply our methods to probe the gluonic structure of hybrid and exotic states.

Primary author

Dimitra Pefkou (Student at William and Mary)

Co-authors

Prof. Phiala Shanahan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Raul Briceno (ODU/JLab) Dr Robert Edwards (Jefferson Lab)

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