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Using a ladder-rainbow kernel previously established for light quark hadron physics, we explore the extension to masses and electroweak decay constants of ground state pseudoscalar and vector quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in the c- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Nguyen , N. A. Souchlas , P. C. Tandy

We investigate the structure of ground-state heavy mesons within the light-front quark model, utilizing wave functions derived from the Single Gaussian Ansatz (SGA) and the Gaussian Expansion Method (GEM). By performing a $\chi^2$ fit to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-24 Ahmad Jafar Arifi , Lucas Happ , Shuhei Ohno , Makoto Oka

The vector channel spectral function at zero spatial momentum is calculated at next-to-leading order in thermal QCD for any quark mass. It corresponds to the imaginary part of the massive quark contribution to the photon polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-07 Yannis Burnier

In this work, we investigate the constituent parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the kaon and heavy pseudoscalar mesons within the light-cone quark model. Starting from the initial scale quark and antiquark PDFs, obtained by evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Satyajit Puhan

The shape function of $B$-meson defined in heavy quark effective theory (HQET) plays a crucial role in the analysis of inclusive $B$ decays, and constitutes one of the dominant uncertainties in the determination of CKM matrix element…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Wei Wang , Ji Xu , Qi-An Zhang , Shuai Zhao

Recent results relevant for the B-physics phenomenology, obtained from lattice QCD simulations by the APE Collaboration, are reviewed. This includes the B0-B0bar mixing amplitude, B-> pi semileptonic decay and the relative width difference…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Damir Becirevic

Recently in the context of studies of the intrinsic charm content of the nucleon and of the eta' meson two groups have arrived at different results for the 1/m^3 term of the heavy quark expansion for operator $\bar Q\gamma_5Q$ differing by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Franz , P. V. Pobylitsa , M. V. Polyakov , K. Goeke

In this paper we have demonstrated the double Q^2-rescaling model (DQ^2RM) of parton distribution functions of nucleon bounded in nucleus. With different x-region of l-A deep inelastic scattering process we take different approach: in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Hong-an Peng , Cong-feng Qiao , Jia-sheng Xu , Zhen-min He

QCD with three degenerate quark flavours at zero baryon density exhibits a first order thermal phase transition for small quark masses, which changes to a smooth crossover for some critical quark mass m^c_0, i.e. the chiral critical point.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Philippe de Forcrand , Owe Philipsen

The successful operation of LHC provides a great opportunity to study the processes where heavy baryons are involved. {In this work we mainly study} the weak transitions of $\Sigma_b\to \Sigma_c$. Assuming the reasonable quark-diquark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-05 Hong-Wei Ke , Xu-Hao Yuan , Xue-Qian Li , Zheng-Tao Wei , Yan-Xi Zhang

We study the angular distribution of photons produced in the inclusive decay of a polarized $\Lambda_b$, $\Lambda_b\to X_s\,\gamma$, using the technique of Heavy Quark Effective Theory. Finite non-perturbative corrections are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Gremm , F. Krüger , L. M. Sehgal

Effects of heavy sea quarks on the low energy physics are described by an effective theory where the expansion parameter is the inverse quark mass, 1/$M$. At leading order in 1/$M$ (and neglecting light quark masses) the dependence of any…

We compute the momentum diffusion coefficient of a nonrelativistic heavy quark in a hot QCD plasma, to next-to-leading order in the weak coupling expansion. Corrections arise at O(g); physically they represent interference between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Caron-Huot , Guy D. Moore

In previous papers we have pointed out that there exists a QCD analog of the phenomenological concept of the so called Fermi motion for the heavy quark inside a hadron. Here we show in a more detailed way how this comes about and we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 I. I. Bigi , M. A. Shifman , N. G. Uraltsev , A. I. Vainshtein

We perform classical-statistical real-time lattice simulations to compute real-time spectral functions and momentum broadening of quarks in the presence of strongly populated non-Abelian gauge fields. Based on a novel methodology to extract…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-02-05 Harshit Pandey , Soeren Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

A rigorous QCD analysis of the inclusive annihilation decay rates of heavy quarkonium states is presented. The effective-field-theory framework of nonrelativistic QCD is used to separate the short-distance scale of annihilation, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Geoffrey T. Bodwin , Eric Braaten , G. Peter Lepage

We study the kaon quasi-distribution amplitude (quasi-DA) and distribution amplitude (DA) within the large-momentum effective theory (LaMET) combined with the first-principles functional QCD. Using quark correlation functions and the kaon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Wen Cui , Dao-yu Zhang , Chuang Huang , Wei-jie Fu

We have investigated a closed system of equations for the quark propagator, obtained earlier within our general approach to QCD at low energies. It implies quark confinement (the quark propagator has no pole, indeed), as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gogokhia

The quasiparticle finite amplitude method (QFAM) is extended to describe charge-exchange transitions based on the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model, adopting the point-coupling energy density functional DD-PC1 and a finite-range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Chen Chen , Zhengzheng Li , Yinu Zhang , Yifei Niu

Recent achievements in the heavy quark theory are critically reviewed. The emphasis is put on those aspects which either did not attract enough attention or cause heated debates in the current literature. Among other topics we discuss (i)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Bigi , M. Shifman , N. Uraltsev