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In this work, we employ a dispersion relation that allows to recover the electromagnetic form factor of the pion from its modulus along the unitarity cut. Unlike the standard dispersive approach, this method extends in a straightforward…

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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

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

We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) and study their applications for the description of the mechanical properties such as the pressure, shear force distributions, and the mechanical radius of the proton from its light-front…

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We discuss the soft contribution to the elastic pion form factor with the mass evolution from current to constituent quark being taken into account in a light-front quark model(LFQM).

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ho-Meoyng Choi , L. S. Kisslinger , Chueng-Ryong Ji

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…

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We study the Wigner distributions of quarks and gluons in light-front dressed quark model using the overlap of light front wave functions (LFWFs). We take the target to be a dressed quark, this is a composite spin $-1/2$ state of quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Jai More , Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair

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 have applied the light-front formalism to calculate the electromagnetic form factors for the pion and the kaon from two models at low and high energies in order to explore the differences between such models. We have also compared the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 O. A. T. Dias , V. S. Filho , J. P. B. C. de Melo

In this paper, we study the internal structure of light pseudoscalar mesons using spin improved power-law wave functions. We choose the pion and the kaon for our work. We use the standard quark-quark correlation functions to calculate the…

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We employ an effective Hamiltonian that includes the transverse and longitudinal confinement and the one-gluon exchange interaction with fixed coupling constant. By solving the eigenvalue equation in basis light-front quantization (BLFQ),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Siqi Xu , Chandan Mondal , Jiangshan Lan , Xingbo Zhao , Yang Li , James P. Vary

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…

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Using available information from Drell-Yan data on pion and kaon structure functions, an approach is described which enables the development of pointwise profiles for all pion and kaon parton distribution functions (DFs) without reference…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Zhen-Ni Xu , Daniele Binosi , Chen Chen , Khépani Raya , Craig D. Roberts , José Rodríguez-Quintero

Existing pion+nucleus Drell-Yan and electron+pion scattering data are used to develop ensembles of model-independent representations of the pion generalised parton distribution (GPD). Therewith, one arrives at a data-driven prediction for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Yin-Zhen Xu , Khépani Raya , Zhu-Fang Cui , Craig D. Roberts , J. Rodríguez-Quintero

We investigate the role of a dynamical gluon in the pion within the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework and compare it with the solution of the Minkowski space Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE), focusing on contributions beyond the…

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Achieving the highest precision for theoretical predictions at the LHC requires the calculation of hard-scattering cross-sections that include perturbative QCD corrections up to (N)NNLO and electroweak (EW) corrections up to NLO. Parton…

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

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) describe the inner, non-perturbative structure of hadrons. Their computation involves matrix elements with a Wilson line along a direction on the light cone, posing significant challenges in Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-13 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , C. -J. David Lin , Manuel Schneider

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