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We calculate the elastic form factors and the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) for four low-lying bound states of a demonstration fermion-antifermion system, strong coupling positronium ($e \bar{e}$), using Basis Light-Front…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Lekha Adhikari , Yang Li , Xingbo Zhao , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary , Alaa Abd El-Hady

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

We compute the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of valence quarks, sea quarks, and gluons in the proton using light-front wave functions obtained within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework, providing a realistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Yiping Liu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for the valence quarks of the pion and the kaon in both momentum space and position space within the basis light-front quantization framework. These GPDs are obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-16 Lekha Adhikari , Chandan Mondal , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We calculate the electromagnetic (charge, magnetic and quadrupole) form factors and the associated static moments of heavy quarkonia (charmonia and bottomonia) using the Basis Light Front Quantization (BLFQ) approach. For this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Lekha Adhikari , Yang Li , Meijian Li , James P. Vary

We study the analytic structure of light-front wave functions (LFWFs) and its consequences for hadron form factors using an explicitly Lorentz-invariant formulation of the front form. The normal to the light front is specified by a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 S. J. Brodsky , J. R. Hiller , D. S. Hwang , V. A. Karmanov

Gluon transverse-momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) are very important for revealing the internal structure of the proton. They correspond to a variety of experiments and are among the major tasks of the future electron-ion colliders.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Hongyao Yu , Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework, we evaluate the gluon chiral-odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs) inside the proton at zero skewness. We employ the light-front wave functions of the proton obtained from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Bolang Lin , Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Zhi Hu , Pengxiang Zhang , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We extract the leading Fock-state light front wave functions (LF-LFWFs) of both the light and heavy pseudoscalar mesons, e.g., the pion (at masses of 130 MeV, 310 MeV and 690 MeV), $\eta_c$ and $\eta_b$, from their covariant Bethe-Salpeter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Chao Shi , Ming Li , Xurong Chen , Wenbao Jia

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

We present a procedure aiming at extending to the full kinematic domain a Generalized Parton Distribution obtained from a finite order truncation in Fock space. This method allows to fulfill both polynomiality and positivity at the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-16 Nabil Chouika

We obtain the leading-twist valence quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs) for the proton within the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) framework. Our results are consistent with lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-22 Zhi Hu , Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

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

We obtain the electromagnetic form factors, the axial form factor, and the parton distribution functions of the proton from the eigenstates of a light-front effective Hamiltonian in the leading Fock representation suitable for low-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Chandan Mondal. Siqi Xu , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , Dipankar Chakrabarti , James P. Vary

We investigate the twist-$3$ transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the pion with basis light-front quantization. The twist-3 TMDs are not independent and can be decomposed into twist-$2$ and genuine twist-$3$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Zhimin Zhu , Zhi Hu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary , BLFQ Collaboration

The light-front representation of quantum chromodynamics provides a frame-independent, quantum-mechanical representation of hadrons at the amplitude level, capable of encoding their multi-quark, hidden-color and gluon momentum, helicity,…

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

Transversity observables, such as the T-odd single-spin asymmetry measured in deep inelastic lepton scattering on polarized protons, and the distributions which are measured in deeply virtual Compton scattering provide important constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Stanley J. Brodsky

We investigate the leading-twist gluonic distribution functions within the proton by formulating a light-front spectator model. The proton light-front wave functions (LFWFs) are adopted from the soft-wall AdS/QCD predictions, and the model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-14 Poonam Choudhary , Dipankar Chakrabarti , Bheemsehan Gurjar , Tanmay Maji , Chandan Mondal , Asmita Mukherjee

We develop a mechanism to build the light-front wavefunctions (LFWFs) of meson bound states on a small-sized basis function representation. Unlike in a standard Hamiltonian formalism, the Hamiltonian in this method is implicit, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Meijian Li , Yang Li , Guangyao Chen , Tuomas Lappi , James P. Vary