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Complete Access to Leading-Twist $Λ$-Baryon Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes from Lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2026-06-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report the first complete lattice-QCD determination of the leading-twist light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of the Λ\Lambda baryon, obtained as full two-dimensional functions of the valence-quark momentum fractions. The calculation employs large-momentum effective theory to relate the light-cone amplitudes to equal-time nonlocal three-quark matrix elements of boosted Λ\Lambda baryons. Controlled physical extrapolations to the continuum, physical pion mass, and infinite momentum, together with hybrid renormalization, large-λ\lambda extrapolation, and perturbative matching, yield the three leading-twist LCDAs VV, AA, and TT. Using the lattice-determined LCDAs in place of the asymptotic form, we find an O(10%)\mathcal{O}(10\%) shift in the Λ\Lambda electromagnetic form factor at perturbative scales, demonstrating that the full two-dimensional LCDAs, rather than only their asymptotic shapes or lowest moments, are required for precision baryonic phenomenology. This work, together with the companion paper [1] detailing the baryon-LaMET framework, provides the first complete multi-dimensional xx-dependent baryon LCDAs from first principles and establishes a benchmark for lattice access to multi-dimensional baryon structure.

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@article{arxiv.2606.29597,
  title  = {Complete Access to Leading-Twist $Λ$-Baryon Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes from Lattice QCD},
  author = {Mu-Hua Zhang and Haoyang Bai and Min-Huan Chu and Jun Hua and Xiangdong Ji and Xiangyu Jiang and Jian Liang and Cai-Dian Lü and Andreas Schäfer and Wei Wang and Yi-Bo Yang and Jian-Hui Zhang and Jia-Lu Zhang and Qi-An Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29597},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures. Ancillary files (Lambda_LCDAs.h5 and Lambda_LCDAs_readme.md) containing the lattice numerical data are included in the source