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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 present the first open-source analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of charged pions using xFitter, an open-source QCD fit framework to facilitate PDF extraction and analyses. Our calculations are implemented at…

We study the gluon parton densities [parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse momentum distributions (TMDs), generalized parton distributions (GPDs)] and form factors in soft-wall AdS/QCD. We show that the power behavior of gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt

We derive the lowest-order $q\bar q$ valence light-front wave function for the pion with Lz=0 and |Lz|=1, which reproduces its valence parton distribution and the electromagnetic form factor consistent with data.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-05 Thomas Gutsche , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt , Alfredo Vega

We study the leading twist gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) and the gluon angular momentum inside the proton within a light-cone spectator model. Using the light-cone wave functions derived from the model, we provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-10 Chentao Tan , Zhun Lu

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

Moments of generalised parton distributions can be related to off-forward matrix elements of local operators. We calculate a few of the leading twist matrix elements for the pion on the lattice. The simulations are performed using two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Brömmel , M. Diehl , M. Göckeler , Ph. Hägler , R. Horsley , D. Pleiter , P. E. L. Rakow , A. Schäfer , G. Schierholz , J. M. Zanotti

We consider two simple covariant models for pions (one with scalar and the other with spin-1/2 constituents). Pion generalized parton distributions are derived by integration over the light-cone energy. The model distributions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 B. C. Tiburzi , G. A. Miller

We obtain the pion and the kaon parton distribution functions from the eigenstates of a light front effective Hamiltonian in the constituent quark-antiquark representation suitable for low-momentum scale applications. By taking these scales…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-07 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We present the first attempt of a new method to compute the pion light-cone wave function (LCWF) on the lattice. We compute the matrix element between the pion and the vacuum of a non-local operator: the propagator of a ``scalar quark''…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Abada , Ph. Boucaud , G. Herdoiza , J. P. Leroy , J. Micheli , O. Pène , J. Rodríguez-Quintero

The gravitational form factors (GFFs) of pions are calculated from a top-down holographic quantum chromodynamics (QCD) approach with momentum transfer dependence for the first time. It is important because the GFFs of hadrons have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-13 Daisuke Fujii , Akihiro Iwanaka , Mitsuru Tanaka

The correct description of the hadron's structure requires understanding how quarks and gluons form the observable hadrons and how they are distributed within them. Two key nonperturbative quantities encapsulate this information: parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Gustavo B. Bopsin , Bruno El-Bennich , Gastão Krein , Fernando E. Serna , Roberto C. da Silveira

In this paper, I investigate the gluon distributions for the kaon and pion, as well as the improvement of the valence-quark distributions, in the framework of the gauge-invariant nonlocal chiral quark model (NL$\chi$QM), where the momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Parada T. P. Hutauruk

The holographic graviton soft-wall model, introduced to describe the spectrum of scalar and tensor glueballs, is improved to incorporate the realization of chiral-symmetry as in QCD. Such a goal is achieved by including the longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 M. Rinaldi , F. A. Ceccopieri , V. Vento

We study the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of pion for non-zero skewness by considering the leading $| q \bar{q} \rangle$ Fock state component. Inspired from AdS/QCD light-front wave functions, we calculate the pion GPDs. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Navdeep Kaur , Narinder Kumar , Chandan Mondal , Harleen Dahiya

In this work, we present the first results on the gluon parton distribution of the kaon from lattice quantum chromodynamics. We carry out the lattice calculation at pion mass around 310~MeV and two lattice spacings, 0.15 and 0.12~fm, using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-07 Alejandro Salas-Chavira , Zhouyou Fan , Huey-Wen Lin

The generalized parton distributions of the pion are studied within different light-front approaches for the quark-hadron and quark-photon vertices, exploring different kinematical regions in both the valence and non-valence sector. Moments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Frederico , E. Pace , B. Pasquini , G. Salme'

Light strongly interacting supersymmetric particles may be treated as partonic constituents of nucleons in high energy scattering processes. We construct parton distribution functions for protons in which a light gluino is included along…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Edmond L. Berger , Pavel M. Nadolsky , Fredrick I. Olness , Jon Pumplin

A light-front holographic model is used to illustrate an algebraic scheme for constructing a representation of a hadron's zero-skewness generalised parton distribution (GPD) from its valence-quark distribution function (DF) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-18 Xiaobin Wang , Zanbin Xing , Lei Chang , Minghui Ding , Khépani Raya , Craig D. Roberts

We show that the holographic Schr\"odinger equation of light-front chiral QCD, together with the 't Hooft equation of (1+1)-dimensional QCD in the large $N_c$ limit, can simultaneously describe pion spectroscopy as well as the pion decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Mohammad Ahmady , Satvir Kaur , Chandan Mondal , Ruben Sandapen