Flavor dependence of the pion and kaon form factors and parton distribution functions
Abstract
The separate quark flavor contributions to the pion and kaon valence quark distribution functions are studied, along with the corresponding electromagnetic form factors in the space-like region. The calculations are made using the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the model of Nambu and Jona-Lasinio with proper-time regularization. Both the pion and kaon form factors and the valence quark distribution functions reproduce many features of the available empirical data. The larger mass of the strange quark naturally explains the empirical fact that the ratio u(K) + (x)/u(pi) + (x) drops below unity at large x, with a value of approximately M$$2\atop{u}$$/Ms$$2\atop{s}$$ as x → 1. With regard to the elastic form factors we report a large flavor dependence, with the u-quark contribution to the kaon form factor being an order of magnitude smaller than that of the s-quark at large Q2, which may be a sensitive measure of confinement effects in QCD. Surprisingly though, the total K+ and π+ form factors differ by only 10%. Lastly, in general we find that flavor breaking effects are typically around 20%.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Adelaide, SA (Australia). CSSM and ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, Dept. of Physics
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Australian Research Council (ARC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1374563
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1314352
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 94; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; elastic form factors; NJL model; parton distribution functions
Citation Formats
Hutauruk, Parada T. P., Cloët, Ian C., and Thomas, Anthony W. Flavor dependence of the pion and kaon form factors and parton distribution functions. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.94.035201.
Hutauruk, Parada T. P., Cloët, Ian C., & Thomas, Anthony W. Flavor dependence of the pion and kaon form factors and parton distribution functions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.035201
Hutauruk, Parada T. P., Cloët, Ian C., and Thomas, Anthony W. Thu .
"Flavor dependence of the pion and kaon form factors and parton distribution functions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.035201. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1374563.
@article{osti_1374563,
title = {Flavor dependence of the pion and kaon form factors and parton distribution functions},
author = {Hutauruk, Parada T. P. and Cloët, Ian C. and Thomas, Anthony W.},
abstractNote = {The separate quark flavor contributions to the pion and kaon valence quark distribution functions are studied, along with the corresponding electromagnetic form factors in the space-like region. The calculations are made using the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the model of Nambu and Jona-Lasinio with proper-time regularization. Both the pion and kaon form factors and the valence quark distribution functions reproduce many features of the available empirical data. The larger mass of the strange quark naturally explains the empirical fact that the ratio u(K) + (x)/u(pi) + (x) drops below unity at large x, with a value of approximately M$2\atop{u}$/Ms$2\atop{s}$ as x → 1. With regard to the elastic form factors we report a large flavor dependence, with the u-quark contribution to the kaon form factor being an order of magnitude smaller than that of the s-quark at large Q2, which may be a sensitive measure of confinement effects in QCD. Surprisingly though, the total K+ and π+ form factors differ by only 10%. Lastly, in general we find that flavor breaking effects are typically around 20%.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.94.035201},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 3,
volume = 94,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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