We report on our exploratory study for the direct evaluation of the parton distribution functions from lattice QCD, based on a recently proposed new approach. We present encouraging results using N f ¼ 2 þ 1 þ 1 twisted mass fermions with a pion mass of about 370 MeV. The focus of this work is a detailed description of the computation, including the lattice calculation, the matching to an infinite momentum and the nucleon mass correction. In addition, we test the effect of gauge link smearing in the operator to estimate the influence of the Wilson line renormalization, which is yet to be done.

We provide an analysis of the x dependence of the bare unpolarized, helicity, and transversity isovector parton distribution functions (PDFs) from lattice calculations employing (maximally) twisted mass fermions. The x dependence of the calculated PDFs resembles the one of the phenomenological parameterizations, a feature that makes this approach very promising. Furthermore, we apply momentum smearing for the relevant matrix elements to compute the lattice PDFs and find a large improvement factor when compared to conventional Gaussian smearing. This allows us to extend the lattice computation of the distributions to higher values of the nucleon momentum, which is essential for the prospects of a reliable extraction of the PDFs in the future.

We determine within lattice QCD the nucleon spin carried by valence and sea quarks and gluons. The calculation is performed using an ensemble of gauge configurations with two degenerate light quarks with mass fixed to approximately reproduce the physical pion mass. We find that the total angular momentum carried by the quarks in the nucleon is J uþdþs ¼ 0.408ð61Þ stat ð48Þ syst and the gluon contribution is J g ¼ 0.133ð11Þ stat ð14Þ syst , giving a total of J N ¼ 0.54ð6Þ stat ð5Þ syst that is consistent with the spin sum. For the quark intrinsic spin contribution, we obtain 1 2 ΔΣ uþdþs ¼ 0.201ð17Þ stat ð5Þ syst . All quantities are given in the modified minimal subtraction scheme at 2 GeV. The quark and gluon momentum fractions are also computed and add up to hxi uþdþs þ hxi g ¼ 0.804ð121Þ stat ð95Þ syst þ 0.267ð12Þ stat ð10Þ syst ¼ 1.07ð12Þ stat ð10Þ syst , thus satisfying the momentum sum. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.142002 Introduction.-The distribution of the proton spin among its constituent quarks and gluons has been a long-standing puzzle ever since the European Muon Collaboration showed in 1987 that only a fraction of the proton spin is carried by the quarks [1,2]. This was in sharp contrast to what one expected based on the quark model. This socalled proton spin crisis triggered rich experimental and theoretical activity. Recent experiments show that only 30% of the proton spin is carried by the quarks [3], while experiments at RHIC [4,5] on the determination of the gluon polarization in the proton point to a nonzero contribution [6]. A global fit to the most recent experimental data that includes the combined set of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data from HERA and Drell-Yan data from Tevatron and LHC led to an improved determination of the valence quark distributions and the flavor separation of the up and down quarks [7]. The combined HERA data also provide improved constraints on the gluon distributions, but large uncertainties remain [7]. Obtaining the quark and gluon contributions to the nucleon spin and momentum fraction within lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) provides an independent input that is extremely crucial, but the computation is very challenging. This is because a complete determination must include, besides the valence, sea quark and gluon contributions that exhibit a large noise-to-signal ratio and are computationally very demanding. A first computation of the gluon spin was performed recently via the evaluation of the gluon helicity in a mixed action approach of overlap valence quarks on N f ¼ 2 þ 1 domain wall fermions that included an ensemble with pion mass 139 MeV [8]. In this Letter, we evaluate

[(18)F]Fluspidine demonstrated favourable target affinity and specificity as well as metabolic stability both in vitro and in animal experiments. The in vivo properties of [(18)F]fluspidine offer a high potential of this radiotracer for neuroimaging and quantitation of σ(1) receptors in vivo.

The role of cyclic electron transport has been re-examined in leaves of C3 plants because the bioenergetics of chloroplasts (H +/e = 3 in the presence of a Q-cycle; H+/ATP = 4 of ATP synthesis) had suggested that cyclic electron flow has no function in C3 photosynthesis. After light activation of pea leaves, the dark reduction of P700 (the donor pigment of PSI) following far-red oxidation was much accelerated. This corresponded to loss of sensitivity of P700 to oxidation by farred light and a large increase in the number of electrons available to reduce P700+ in the dark. At low CO2 and O2 molar ratios, far-red light was capable of decreasing the activity of photosystem II (measured as the ratio of variable to maximal chlorophyll fluorescence, Fv/Fm) and of increasing light scattering at 535 nm and zeaxanthin synthesis, indicating formation of a trans-thylakoid pH gradient. Both the light-induced increase in the number of electrons capable of reducing far-redoxidised P700 and the decline in Fv/Fm brought about by far-red in leaves were prevented by methyl viologen. Antimycin A inhibited CO2-dependent O2 evolution of pea leaves at saturating but not under limiting light; in its presence, far-red light failed to decrease Fv/Fm. The results indicate that cyclic electron flow regulates the quantum yield of photosystem II by decreasing the intrathylakoid pH when there is a reduction in the availability of electron acceptors at the PSI level (e.g. during drought or cold stresses). It also provides ATP for the carbon-reduction cycle under high light. Under these conditions, the Q-cycle is not able to maintain a H+/e ratio of 3 for ATP synthesis: we suggest that the ratio is flexible, not obligatory.