Pion light-cone distribution amplitude from the HOPE method

Sheng-Pin Chang¹, William Detmold², Anthony Grebe³, Issaku Kanamori⁴, C.-J. David Lin^1*, Robert Perry², Yong Zhao⁵

¹Institute of Physics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
²Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
³Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, USA
⁴Center for Computational Science, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
⁵Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA

* Presenter:C.-J. David Lin, email:dlin@nycu.edu.tw

I present the basics of the HOPE method, and progress on lattice computations for the Mellin moments of the pion light-cone distribution amplitude. In particular, I present the first determination for the 4th moment in the continuum limit.

Keywords: Hadron structure, QCD, Lattice gauge theory