English

Measures of pion and kaon structure from generalised parton distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Pion and kaon structural properties provide insights into the emergence of mass within the Standard Model and attendant modulations by the Higgs boson. Novel expressions of these effects, in impact parameter space and in mass and pressure profiles, are exposed via π\pi and KK generalised parton distributions, built using the overlap representation from light-front wave functions constrained by one-dimensional valence distribution functions that describe available data. Notably, e.g. KK pressure profiles are spatially more compact than π\pi profiles and both achieve near-core pressures of similar magnitude to that found in neutron stars.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2101.12286,
  title  = {Measures of pion and kaon structure from generalised parton distributions},
  author = {Jin-Li Zhang and Khépani Raya and Lei Chang and Zhu-Fang Cui and José Manuel Morgado and Craig D. Roberts and José Rodríguez-Quintero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12286},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B