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We present our recent progress in applying the basis light-front quantization approach to investigate the nucleon's structure. We solve its wave functions from the eigenstates of the light-front QCD Hamiltonian using a fully relativistic,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Yiping Liu , Jiangshan Lan , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

This article is an introduction to parton distribution functions and their generalizations which describe the quark and gluon structure of hadrons, and can be measured in various high-energy scattering processes. We provide the theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-23 Cédric Lorcé , A. Metz , B. Pasquini , P. Schweitzer

We explore the possibility to construct higher-twist parton distributions in a nucleon at some low reference scale from convolution integrals of the light-cone wave functions (WFs). To this end we introduce simple models for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-08 V. M. Braun , T. Lautenschlager , A. N. Manashov , B. Pirnay

The Wigner distributions (WDs) in boost-invariant longitudinal space for unpolarized, longitudinally polarized and linearly polarized gluons in a proton are presented in the framework of the light-front gluon spectator model inspired by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Sonia , Tanmay Maji , Hemant Kumar

We investigate the light-cone wave functions and leading-twist distribution amplitudes for the nucleon and $\Delta$ baryon within the framework of the chiral quark-soliton model. The baryon wave function consists of the valence quark and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 June-Young Kim , Hyun-Chul Kim , Maxim V. Polyakov

We discuss the Wigner functions of the nucleon which provide multi-dimensional images of the quark distributions in phase space. They combine in a single picture all the information contained in the generalized parton distributions (GPDs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-15 Cédric Lorcé , Barbara Pasquini

We discuss the general formalism for the calculation in light-front quark models of the fully unintegrated, off-diagonal quark-quark correlator of the nucleon, parametrized in terms of generalized transverse momentum dependent parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-05 B. Pasquini , C. Lorce'

The relation of generalized (skewed) quark distributions to nucleon wave functions is discussed in the context of light-cone quantization.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Rainer Jakob

In the beginning of the 1950's, Wigner introduced a fundamental deformation from the canonical quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator, which is nowadays sometimes called a Wigner quantum oscillator or a parabose oscillator. Also, in quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-06-27 E. I. Jafarov , S. Lievens , J. Van der Jeugt

We present a calculation of the leading-twist (twist-2) generalized transverse momentum distributions (GTMDs) for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluons in the proton, using a recently developed light-front gluon spectator model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Dipankar Chakrabarti , Bheemsehan Gurjar , Asmita Mukherjee , Kauship Saha

We prove a formula expressing the gradient of the phase function of a function $f: \mathbb R^d \mapsto \mathbb C$ as a normalized first frequency moment of the Wigner distribution for fixed time. The formula holds when $f$ is the Fourier…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Paolo Boggiatto , Alessandro Oliaro , Patrik Wahlberg

Using QCD sum rule, we calculate valance quark distribution functions of {\eta} and of {\eta}' in chiral limit. Extrapolating the calculated quark distribution functions at both end regions, their first two moments have been calculated and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Janardan P. Singh , Aditya B. Patel

We show that the diffractive forward production of two quarkonia, especially the $\chi_{cJ}$ and $\eta_c$ states, in proton-proton or proton-ion collisions can access the Weizs\"acker-Williams gluon Wigner distribution of the proton. We use…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Renaud Boussarie , Yoshitaka Hatta , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Expressing the Wigner distribution function in Dirac notation reveals its resemblance to a classical trajectory in phase space.

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Frank Rioux

We study the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in randomly heterogeneous bianisotropic media with dissipative properties. For that purpose we consider randomly fluctuating optical responses of such media with correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

We use detailed balance for a hadron composed of quark and gluon Fock states to obtain parton distributions in the proton and pion on the basis of a simple statistical model.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mary Alberg , Ernest M. Henley

In the context of nucleon structure, the Wigner distribution has been commonly used to visualize the phase-space distribution of quarks and gluons inside the nucleon. However, the Wigner distribution does not allow for a probabilistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Yoshikazu Hagiwara , Yoshitaka Hatta

The impulse-approximation expression used hitherto to define the pion's valence-quark distribution function is flawed because it omits contributions from the gluons which bind quarks into the pion. A corrected leading-order expression…

Free-space propagation can be described as a shearing of the Wigner distribution function in the spatial coordinate; this shearing is linear in paraxial approximation but assumes a more complex shape for wide-angle propagation. Integration…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. B. Almeida , V. Lakshminarayanan