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We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) of the pion and kaon using their light-front wave functions within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework. The wave functions are obtained by solving a light-front effective Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Amrita Sain , Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

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

Within light-front quantization, hadrons can be represented on a Fock-space basis of configurations of elementary partons. The coefficients of the expansion are called light-front wave functions (LFWFs), and encode all the dynamical degrees…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 S. Rodini , A. Schiavi , B. Pasquini

In the present work, we analyze the properties of the transition form factors (TFFs) for the $\gamma\gamma^*\to \eta^{(\prime)}$ process, employing the $\eta^{(\prime)}$-meson light-cone distribution amplitude (LCDA) derived within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Dan-Dan Hu , Xing-Gang Wu , Yu-Jie Zhang , Hai-Bing Fu , Tao Zhong

We study the leading-twist unpolarized generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of light and heavy vector mesons, i.e., the $\rho$, $J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$, at zero skewness. An ansatz incorporating the zero mode contribution is introduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-26 Chao Shi , Jicheng Li , Pei-Lin Yin , Wenbao Jia

We obtain the light meson mass spectroscopy from the light-front quantum chromodynamics (QCD) Hamiltonian, determined for their constituent quark-antiquark and quark-antiquark-gluon Fock components, together with a three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-17 Jiangshan Lan , Kaiyu Fu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , james P. Vary

We investigate the twist-3 generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the valence quarks of the proton within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. We first solve for the mass spectra and light-front waved functions (LFWFs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Ziqi Zhang , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework, we systematically investigate the subleading twist (twist-3) transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the proton beyond the Wandzura-Wilczek (WW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Zhimin Zhu , Siqi Xu , Jiatong Wu , Hongyao Yu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary , BLFQ Collaboration

The ensemble of light-cone Fock wavefunctions $\{\psi_{n/H}(x_i,\vec k_{\perp i},\lambda_i)\}$ provides a conceptual basis for representing physical hadrons and nuclei in terms of their fundamental quark and gluon degrees of freedom. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanley J. Brodsky

We investigate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion and kaon from the eigenstates of a light-front effective Hamiltonian in the constituent quark-antiquark representation suitable for low-momentum scale applications. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

The parton distribution of the pion is obtained for the first time from the solution of a dynamical equation in Minkowski space. The adopted equation is the homogeneous Bethe-Salpeter one with a ladder kernel, described in terms of i)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-15 W. de Paula , E. Ydrefors , J. H. Alvarenga Nogueira , T. Frederico , G. Salmè

We study the light-unflavored mesons as relativistic bound states in the nonperturbative Hamiltonian formalism of the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) approach. The dynamics for the valence quarks of these mesons is specified by an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Wenyang Qian , Shaoyang Jia , Yang Li , James P. Vary

The leading twist transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) are studied in a light-cone description of the nucleon where the Fock expansion is truncated to consider only valence quarks. General analytic expressions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 B. Pasquini , S. Cazzaniga , S. Boffi

We calculate the leading twist pion unpolarized transverse momentum distribution $f_1(x,k_T^2)$ and the Boer-Mulders function $h_1^\perp(x,k_T^2)$, using leading Fock-state light front wave functions (LF-LFWFs) based on Dyson-Schwinger and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-25 Wei Kou , Chao Shi , Xurong Chen , Wenbao Jia

A natural calculus for describing the bound-state structure of relativistic composite systems in quantum field theory is the light-front Fock expansion which encodes the properties of a hadrons in terms of a set of frame-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

We investigate the singly virtual transition form factor (TFF) for the $\pi^0\to\gamma^*\gamma$ process in the space-like region using the hard-scattering formalism within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework. This form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-14 Xiaoyi Wu , Zhimin Zhu , Ziyang Lin , Chandan Mondal , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We solve for the gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) inside the proton, focusing specifically on leading twist chiral-even GPDs. We obtain and employ the light-front wavefunctions (LFWFs) of the proton from a light-front quantized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-17 Bolang Lin , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Zhi Hu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We investigate the structure of the light meson with one dynamical gluon from the light-front QCD Hamiltonian, determined for their constituent quark-antiquark and quark-antiquark-gluon Fock sectors, together with a three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Jiangshan Lan , Kaiyu Fu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We explore the modifications of hadron structure in a nuclear medium, focusing on the spacelike electromagnetic form factors (EMFFs) of light and heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons. By combining the light-front quark model (LFQM) with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 Ahmad Jafar Arifi , Parada T. P. Hutauruk , Kazuo Tsushima

We have presented the leading twist quark transverse momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) for the spin-1 heavy vector mesons $J/\psi$-meson and $\Upsilon$-meson using the overlap of the light-front wave functions. We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-02 Satyajit Puhan , Harleen Dahiya