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We present a consistent calculation of the structure functions within a light-front constituent quark model of the nucleon. Relativistic effects and the relevance of the covariance constraints are analyzed for polarized parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Faccioli , F. Cano , M. Traini , V. Vento

Parton distribution functions (DFs) have long been recognised as key measures of hadron structure. Today, theoretical prediction of such DFs is becoming possible using diverse methods for continuum and lattice analyses of strong interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Yang Yu , Craig D. Roberts

Quantum simulation of quantum field theories offers a new way to investigate properties of the fundamental constituents of matter. We develop quantum simulation algorithms based on the light-front formulation of relativistic field theories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Carter M. Gustin , Gary Goldstein

Supposing only that there is an effective charge which defines an evolution scheme for parton distribution functions (DFs) that is all-orders exact, strict lower and upper bounds on all Mellin moments of the valence-quark DFs of pion-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Z. -F. Cui , M. Ding , J. M. Morgado , K. Raya , D. Binosi , L. Chang , F. De Soto , C. D. Roberts , J. Rodríguez-Quintero , S. M. Schmidt

We propose a phenomenological light-front wave function for hadrons with arbitrary twist-dimension (mesons, baryons and multiquark states), which gives the correct scaling behavior of structure functions (parton distributions) and form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Thomas Gutsche , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt , Alfredo Vega

We investigate the model dependence of no-helicity flip generalized parton distribution of the pion upon different approaches for the quark-hadron and quark-photon vertexes, in the spacelike region. In order to obtain information on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Frederico , E. Pace , B. Pasquini , G. Salmé

We compute the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the unpolarised muon for the leptons, the photon, the light quarks, and the gluon. We discuss in detail the issues stemming from the necessity of evaluating the strong coupling constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-14 Stefano Frixione , Giovanni Stagnitto

The parton distribution function of the pion in the valence region is extracted in a next-to-leading order analysis from Fermilab E-615 pionic Drell-Yan data. The effects of the parameterization of the pion's valence distributions are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Wijesooriya , P. E. Reimer , R. J. Holt

We determine the valence parton distribution function of the pion by performing a new analysis of data for the Drell-Yan process $\pi^- N\to \mu^+\mu^-X$. Compared to previous analyses, we include next-to-leading-logarithmic threshold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Matthias Aicher , Andreas Schäfer , Werner Vogelsang

We investigate the unpolarized pion and kaon fragmentation functions, employing the nonlocal chiral-quark model, which manifests the nonlocal interactions between the quarks and pseudoscalar mesons, considering the explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Seung-il Nam , Chung-Wen Kao

An algebraic Ansatz for the proton's Poincar\'e-covariant wave function, which includes both scalar and pseudovector diquark correlations, is used to calculate proton valence, sea, and glue distribution functions (DFs). Regarding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Lei Chang , Fei Gao , Craig D. Roberts

We determine the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs) from its light-front wave functions, obtained using the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD combined with the 't Hooft equation in (1+1)-dimensional QCD at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiangshan Lan , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal

We employ the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework to compute the leading-twist (twist-2) and subleading-twist (twist-3) transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the kaon. The light-front wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuanqi Lu , Zhimin Zhu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We evaluate the pion and kaon transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) in the instanton liquid model (ILM), a model of the QCD vacuum at low resolution. The relevant TMDs are factored into a constituent quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Wei-Yang Liu , Ismail Zahed

The Drell-Levy-Yan relation is employed to obtain pion and kaon elementary fragmentation functions (EFFs) from the hadron-scale parton distribution functions (DFs) of these mesons. Two different DF sets are used: that calculated using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-27 Hui-Yu Xing , Wen-Hao Bian , Zhu-Fang Cui , Craig D. Roberts

We present an analysis to extract kaon parton distribution functions (PDFs) for the first time using meson-induced Drell-Yan and quarkonium production data. Starting from the statistical model first developed for determining the partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-21 Claude Bourrely , Franco Buccella , Wen-Chen Chang , Jen-Chieh Peng

Parton distribution functions give the probability to find partons (quarks and gluons) in a hadron as a function of the fraction x of the proton's momentum carried by the parton. They are conventionally defined in terms of matrix elements…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Davison E. Soper

We evaluate the cross section for the pion induced Drell-Yan process in two different models of the pion light-front wave function, inspired by light-front holographic approaches. We obtain the valence quark distribution functions in those…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-23 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal

We study the unpolarized fragmentation functions and parton distribution functions of the pion employing the nonlocal chiral quark model. This model manifests the nonlocal interactions between the quarks and pseudoscalar mesons in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Seung-il Nam , Chung-Wen Kao

We solve for the $\rho$-meson's wave functions from a light-front QCD Hamiltonian determined for its constituent quark-antiquark and quark-antiquark-gluon Fock components, with a three-dimensional confinement using basis light-front…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-09 Satvir Kaur , Jiatong Wu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary