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We calculate the possible scalar, vector, and tensor form factors (FFs) for pion and kaon in the light-cone quark model (LCQM). These FFs are calculated from the leading and sub-leading twist generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs)…

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Employing the Bethe-Salpeter formalism, we present a computation of the space-like baryonic form factor for the pion and kaon. In the exact isospin-symmetric limit this observable is forbidden by $G$-parity, so that any nonzero signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 A. S. Miramontes , J. M. Morgado , J. Papavassiliou

This work addresses more to the technical rather than to the physical problem, how to calculate analytically the form factor $F(Q)$, the associated mean-square radius $<r^2>$, and the distribution function $\Phi(x,Q^2)$ for a given…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Hans-Christian Pauli

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

This review paper presents the gluon, sea, and valence quark distributions of the pseudoscalar (PS) mesons. The calculations of the parton structure of PS mesons are performed using the Bethe-Salpeter equation-Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (BSE-NJL)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-06 Parada T. P. Hutauruk , Seung-il Nam

The electromagnetic form factors of $\pi$ and $K$ mesons and deuteron are calculated in modified impulse approximation using instant form of relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics. The different model wave functions are used. Meson wave function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. Krutov , V. E. Troitsky

We investigate the internal structure of the pion, including the contributions from one dynamical gluon, using the basis light-front quantization (BLFQ) approach. By solving a light-front QCD Hamiltonian with a three-dimensional confining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jiangshan Lan , Kaiyu Fu , Satvir Kaur , Zhimin Zhu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

The off-shell pion electromagnetic form factors are explored with corresponding off-shell light-front wave functions modeled by constituent quark and anti-quark. We apply the Mandelstam approach for the microscopic computation of the form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-07 Jurandi Leão , J. Pacheco B. C. de Melo , T. Frederico , Ho-Meoyng Choi , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We present a study of chiral behavior of light meson form factors in QCD with three flavors of overlap quarks. Gauge ensembles are generated at single lattice spacing 0.12 fm with pion masses down to 300 MeV. The pion and kaon…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-29 JLQCD Collaboration , T. Kaneko , S. Aoki , G. Cossu , X. Feng , H. Fukaya , S. Hashimoto , J. Noaki , T. Onogi

We developed a model for the pion light-front wave function (LFWF) that incorporates valence, sea and gluon degrees of freedom. Using the LFWF overlap representation, we derived parametrizations for the pion parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-21 Simone Venturini , Barbara Pasquini , Simone Rodini

We study the electromagnetic form factor of the pion and kaons at low-energies with the use of Chiral Perturbation Theory. The analysis is performed within the three flavour framework and at next-to-next-to-leading order. We explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 Johan Bijnens , Pere Talavera

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

In this paper, we investigate the distribution amplitudes (DAs) of pseudoscalar mesons within the light-front quark model (LFQM), and the $n$-th Gegenbauer moment $a_n(\mu)$, $\xi$-moment $\langle \xi^n\rangle$ and transverse moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Xiao-Nan Li , Shuai Xu , Qin Chang

We investigate the internal structure of the pion using generalized transverse momentum-dependent parton distributions (GTMDs) within the light-cone quark model. By solving the quark-quark correlator, we derive the twist-$2$, $3$, and $4$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Satyajit Puhan , Shubham Sharma , Narinder Kumar , Harleen Dahiya

Nucleon and pion electromagnetic form factors are evaluated in the spacelike region within a light-front constituent quark model, where eigenfunctions of a mass operator, reproducing a large set of hadron energy levels, are adopted and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Cardarelli , E. Pace , G. Salme' , S. Simula

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 investigate the partonic structure of the $\rho$ meson, the lightest spin-$1$ vector meson, within the light-front quark model (LFQM). To explore the sensitivity to model assumptions, we employ two distinct types of spin wave functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Satyajit Puhan , Shubham Sharma , Narinder Kumar , Harleen Dahiya

The leading-twist parton distribution functions of the pion and kaon are calculated for the first time using a rainbow-ladder truncation of QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSEs) that self-consistently sums all planar diagrams. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Kyle D. Bednar , Ian C. Cloët , Peter C. Tandy

The quark-level linear sigma model is employed to compute a variety of electromagnetic and weak observables of light mesons, including pion and kaon form factors and charge radii, charged-pion polarizabilities, semileptonic weak $K_{\ell3}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael D. Scadron , Frieder Kleefeld , George Rupp , Eef van Beveren

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