## Connected and Disconnected Sea Partons from CT18 Parametrization of PDFs

Tie-Jiun Hou, Jian Liang, Keh-Fei Liu, Mengshi Yan, C.-P. Yuan

SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 067 (2022) · published 12 July 2022

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### Abstract

The separation of the connected and disconnected sea partons, which were uncovered in the Euclidean path-integral formulation of the hadronic tensor, is accommodated with the CT18 parametrization of the global analysis of the parton distribution functions (PDFs). This is achieved with the help of the distinct small $x$ behaviors of these two sea parton components and the constraint from the lattice calculation of the ratio of the strange momentum fraction to that of the ${\bar u}$ or ${\bar d}$ in the disconnected insertion. This allows lattice calculations of separate flavors in both the connected and disconnected insertions to be directly compared with the global analysis results term by term.

### Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations

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• 1 Tie-Jiun Hou,
• 2 Jian Liang,
• 3 Keh-Fei Liu,
• 4 Mengshi Yan,
• 5 Chien-Peng Yuan
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