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Title: Pion Distribution Amplitude from Lattice QCD

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
  2. Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany). Inst. for Nuclear Physics
  3. Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany). Inst. for Advanced Simulation
  4. Kent State Univ., Kent, OH (United States). Center for Nuclear Research

A method is explained through which a pointwise accurate approximation to the pion’s valence-quark distribution amplitude (PDA) may be obtained from a limited number of moments. Furthermore, in connection with the single nontrivial moment accessible in contemporary simulations of lattice-regularized QCD, the method yields a PDA that is a broad concave function whose pointwise form agrees with that predicted by Dyson-Schwinger equation analyses of the pion. Under leading-order evolution, the PDA remains broad to energy scales in excess of 100 GeV, a feature which signals persistence of the influence of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking. Consequently, the asymptotic distribution φ $$asy\atop{π}$$( x ) is a poor approximation to the pion’s PDA at all such scales that are either currently accessible or foreseeable in experiments on pion elastic and transition form factors. Thus, related expectations based on φ$$asy\atop{π}$$( x ) should be revised.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357; NSF-PHY1206187
OSTI ID:
1392248
Report Number(s):
BNL-114274-2017-JA; PRLTAO; R&D Project: KB0301020; KB0301020
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 9; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 52 works
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