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Proton Mass Decomposition from the QCD Energy Momentum Tensor

Yi-Bo Yang, Jian Liang, Yu-Jiang Bi, Ying Chen, Terrence Draper, Keh-Fei Liu, and Zhaofeng Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 212001 – Published 19 November 2018
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We report results on the proton mass decomposition and also on related quark and glue momentum fractions. The results are based on overlap valence fermions on four ensembles of Nf=2+1 domain wall fermion configurations with three lattice spacings and three volumes, and several pion masses including the physical pion mass. With fully nonperturbative renormalization (and universal normalization on both quark and gluon), we find that the quark energy and glue field energy contribute 32(4)(4)% and 36(5)(4)% respectively in the MS¯ (modified minimal substraction) scheme at μ=2GeV. A quarter of the trace anomaly gives a 23(1)(1)% contribution to the proton mass based on the sum rule, given 9(2)(1)% contribution from the u, d, and s quark scalar condensates. The u, d, s, and glue momentum fractions in the MS¯ scheme are in good agreement with global analyses at μ=2GeV.

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  • Received 4 September 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.212001

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Published 19 November 2018

A calculation determines four distinct contributions to the proton mass, more than 90% of which arises entirely from the dynamics of quarks and gluons.

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Yi-Bo Yang1,5, Jian Liang2, Yu-Jiang Bi3, Ying Chen3,4, Terrence Draper2, Keh-Fei Liu2, and Zhaofeng Liu3,4

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
  • 3Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 5Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

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Vol. 121, Iss. 21 — 23 November 2018

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