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We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, with lattice-QCD data on gluonic pseudo--Ioffe-time distributions fitted simultaneously with experimental Drell-Yan and leading neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 William Good , Patrick C. Barry , Huey-Wen Lin , W. Melnitchouk , Alex NieMiera , Nobuo Sato

In this work, we investigate the valence quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion within the light-cone quark model. The initial quark PDFs are calculated by solving the quark-quark correlation function for the pseudoscalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Hari Govind P , Satyajit Puhan , Abhishek K. P , Reetanshu Pandey , Harleen Dahiya , Arvind Kumar , Suneel Dutt

We perform a new Monte Carlo QCD analysis of pion parton distribution functions, including, for the first time, transverse momentum dependent pion-nucleus Drell-Yan cross sections together with $p_{\rm T}$-integrated Drell-Yan and leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 N. Y. Cao , P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk

The pion structure function is investigated in a simple model, where pion and constituent quark fields are coupled through the simplest pseudoscalar coupling. The imaginary part of the forward gamma* pi-> gamma* pi scattering amplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Bissey , J. R. Cudell , J. Cugnon , M. Jaminon , J. P. Lansberg , P. Stassart

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 propose a phenomenological light-front wave function for hadrons with arbitrary twist-dimension (mesons, baryons and multiquark states), which gives the correct scaling behavior of structure functions (parton distributions) and form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Thomas Gutsche , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Ivan Schmidt , Alfredo Vega

The pion structure function is investigated in a simple model, where the pion and its constituent quark fields are coupled through the simplest pseudoscalar coupling. The imaginary part of the forward gamma* pi -> gamma* pi scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Lansberg , F. Bissey , J. R. Cudell , J. Cugnon , M. Jaminon , P. Stassart

A phenomenological model for the nucleon structure functions is presented. Visualising the nucleon as a cavity filled with parton gas in equilibrium and parametrizing the effects due to the finiteness of the nucleon volume, we obtain a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. S. Bhalerao

Inclusive cross section for pion production in proton - proton collisions are calculated based on unintegrated parton distribution functions (uPDFs). In addition to purely gluonic terms the present approach includes also quark degrees of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Marta Tichoruk , Antoni Szczurek

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

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 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

Partonic structure of constituent quark (or{\it{valon}}) in the Next-to-Leading Order is used to calculate pion structure function. This is a further demonstration of the finding that the constituent quark structure is universal, and once…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Firooz Arash

The pion, as the Goldstone boson of the strong interaction, is the lightest QCD bound state and responsible for the long-range nucleon-nucleon interaction inside the nucleus. Our knowledge on the pion partonic structure is limited by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Wen-Chen Chang , Chia-Yu Hsieh , Yu-Shiang Lian , Jen-Chieh Peng , Stephane Platchkov , Takahiro Sawada

We determine the valence parton distribution function of the pion by performing a new analysis of data for the Drell-Yan process $\pi^- N\to \mu^+\mu^-X$. Compared to previous analyses, we include next-to-leading-logarithmic threshold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Matthias Aicher , Andreas Schäfer , Werner Vogelsang

We perform the first global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the pion, combining $\pi A$ Drell-Yan data with leading neutron electroproduction from HERA within a Monte Carlo approach based on nested sampling.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 P. C. Barry , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk , Chueng-Ryong Ji

Generalised Parton Distributions (GPDs) provide multidimensional insight into hadron structure and are particularly relevant for the pion, whose dynamics are intimately linked to chiral symmetry breaking. We introduce a novel modelling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 J. M. Morgado-Chávez , J. Segovia , F. de Soto , J. Rodríguez-Quintero , V. Bertone , M. Defurne , C. Mezrag , H. Moutarde

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Yang Yu , Craig D. Roberts

Resonance production and decay into pion pairs is simulated in a non-extensive quark matter with multi-particle interactions. Final state pion spectra are found to take the form of the Tsallis distribution, in accordance with measurements.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Karoly Urmossy , Tamas S. Biro , Gergely G. Barnaföldi

We derive a new parametrization for the scalar pion form factors that allows us to analyze data over a large energy range via the inclusion of resonances, and at the same time to ensure consistency with the high-accuracy dispersive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Stefan Ropertz , Christoph Hanhart , Bastian Kubis