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Electromagnetic structure of Bc and heavy quarkonia in the light-front quark model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-17 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the electromagnetic structure of heavy quarkonia and the BcB_c meson within the light-front quark model (LFQM) to better understand the internal spatial charge distributions and QCD dynamics of heavy mesons. The light-front wave functions (LFWFs) are obtained using a variational approach with a few set of harmonic oscillator basis functions, providing a flexible yet tractable description of the bound-state dynamics. Using these LFWFs, we compute the electromagnetic form factors and compare our results with available lattice QCD data and other model calculations. Our results are roughly consistent with previous model predictions, showing that the electromagnetic radii of the 2S2S and 3S3S states are approximately 1.5 times and 1.9 times larger than those of their corresponding 1S1S states, reflecting the expected growth of spatial size in radial excitations.

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@article{arxiv.2603.13819,
  title  = {Electromagnetic structure of Bc and heavy quarkonia in the light-front quark model},
  author = {Rayn Rasyid Harjapradipta and Muhammad Ridwan and Ahmad Jafar Arifi and Terry Mart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.13819},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Accepted in Modern Physics Letters A, 13 pages, 6 figures