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Hybrid hadrons at rest and on the light front

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-04-30 v1

Abstract

We present a unified description of heavy hybrid hadrons based on a constituent-gluon picture embedded in the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) framework. In this approach, the gluonic excitation is treated as a dynamical quasiparticle with a mass generated by instanton-induced interactions. We propose a simple variational derivation of the BO potentials. The main focus of the paper is the derivation of light-front wave functions for hybrid systems, specifically for the ccgccg and qqqgqqqg cases. We employ both variational methods and numerical solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation in momentum representation. Using the resulting wave functions, we compute the gluon PDFs for these systems.

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@article{arxiv.2604.26708,
  title  = {Hybrid hadrons at rest and on the light front},
  author = {Edward Shuryak and Ismail Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26708},
  year   = {2026}
}