Updated flexible global parametrization of generalized parton distributions from elastic and deep inelastic inclusive scattering data

Abstract

Abstract An updated flexible parametrization of the generalized parton distributions in the quark, antiquark and gluon sectors is presented using constraints from high precision electron nucleon deep inelastic scattering data, from the u and d flavor separated nucleon electromagnetic elastic form factors, and from the gluon form factors recently calculated in lattice QCD. The generalized parton distributions in the vector sector are H and E . We rigorously constrain the partonic components, $$H_{u_v}$$ H u v , $$H_{d_v}$$ H d v , $$H_{\bar{u}}$$ H u ¯ , $$H_{\bar{d}}$$ H d ¯ , $$H_{\bar{s}}$$ H s ¯ and $$H_{g}$$ H g , and the analogous quantities for E , with proper uncertainty quantification. These distributions obey leading order perturbative QCD evolution equations in $$\alpha _S$$ α S . Parametric forms at the initial scale, $$Q_o^2 = 0.58$$ Q o 2 = 0.58 $$\textrm{GeV}^2$$ GeV 2 , for both quarks and gluon distributions are presented as a function of the relevant kinematic variables, namely, the parton momentum fraction, x , the skewness, $$\xi $$ ξ , and the invariant, t . We also present the Compton form factors entering the deeply virtual Compton scattering process in the kinematic regimes for both fixed target and electron-ion collider settings.