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A model for pion collinear parton distribution function and form factor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-07-21 v1

Abstract

We developed a model for the pion light-front wave function (LFWF) that incorporates valence, sea and gluon degrees of freedom. Using the LFWF overlap representation, we derived parametrizations for the pion parton distribution functions and the electromagnetic form factor. These parametrizations depend on two distinct sets of parameters, enabling separate fits of the longitudinal- and transverse-momentum dependencies of the LFWF. The pion PDFs are extracted from available Drell-Yan and photon-production data using the xFitter framework and are found well compatible with existing extractions. Furthermore, the fit of the electromagnetic form factor of the pion to all the available experimental data works quite successfully.

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@article{arxiv.2307.10735,
  title  = {A model for pion collinear parton distribution function and form factor},
  author = {Simone Venturini and Barbara Pasquini and Simone Rodini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10735},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures. Contribution presented at DIS2023

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