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Title: Frame dependence of form factors in light-front dynamics

Abstract

In light-front dynamics, form factors are traditionally computed with the “good current” J+ within the Drell-Yan frame q+ = 0 . Due to truncations imposed in practical calculations, the from factor may acquire frame dependence, which is often neglected. In this work, we explore the form factors in more general frames, preserving the boost covariance. We find the frame dependence of the elastic form factors for mesons is small in basis light-front holography and related models with two-body Fock space truncation. We suggest to use the difference between form factor results from Drell-Yan frame and the “longitudinal frame” as a metric for the violation of the Lorentz symmetry due to Fock space truncation.

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Research Org.:
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States); Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1430381
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1498958
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-87ER40371; FG02-04ER41302; SC0018223; SC0015376
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 97 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Li, Yang, Maris, Pieter, and Vary, James P. Frame dependence of form factors in light-front dynamics. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.054034.
Li, Yang, Maris, Pieter, & Vary, James P. Frame dependence of form factors in light-front dynamics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.054034
Li, Yang, Maris, Pieter, and Vary, James P. Thu . "Frame dependence of form factors in light-front dynamics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.054034.
@article{osti_1430381,
title = {Frame dependence of form factors in light-front dynamics},
author = {Li, Yang and Maris, Pieter and Vary, James P.},
abstractNote = {In light-front dynamics, form factors are traditionally computed with the “good current” J+ within the Drell-Yan frame q+ = 0 . Due to truncations imposed in practical calculations, the from factor may acquire frame dependence, which is often neglected. In this work, we explore the form factors in more general frames, preserving the boost covariance. We find the frame dependence of the elastic form factors for mesons is small in basis light-front holography and related models with two-body Fock space truncation. We suggest to use the difference between form factor results from Drell-Yan frame and the “longitudinal frame” as a metric for the violation of the Lorentz symmetry due to Fock space truncation.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.97.054034},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 5,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {3}
}

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FIG. 1. FIG. 1. : LFWF representation of the hadron matrix element. The double-lines represent the hadrons. The solid lines represent the partons. The wavy lines represent the probing photon. The shaded areas represent the LFWFs. These diagrams are ordered by light-front time x+, which flows from left to right. The parton-number-nonconservingmore » contributions (b) stem from pair production/annihilation.« less

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