Complete Access to Leading-Twist $Λ$-Baryon Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes from Lattice QCD
Abstract
We report the first complete lattice-QCD determination of the leading-twist light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of the 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 baryons. Controlled physical extrapolations to the continuum, physical pion mass, and infinite momentum, together with hybrid renormalization, large- extrapolation, and perturbative matching, yield the three leading-twist LCDAs , , and . Using the lattice-determined LCDAs in place of the asymptotic form, we find an shift in the 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 -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