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Title: Pion and Kaon Valence-quark Parton Quasidistributions

Abstract

Algebraic Ansatze for the Poincare-covariant Bethe-Salpeter wave functions of the pion and kaon arc used to calculate their light-front wave functions, parton distribution amplitudes, parton quasidistribution amplitudes, valence parton distribution functions, and parton quasidistribution functions (PqDFs). The light-front wave functions arc broad, concave functions, and the scale of flavor-symmetry violation in the kaon is roughly 15%, being set by the ratio of emergent masses in the s- and u-quark sectors. Parton quasidistribution amplitudes computed with longitudinal momentum Pz = 1.75 GeV provide a semiquantitatively accurate representation of the objective parton distribution amplitude, but even with Pz = 3 GeV, they cannot provide information about this amplitude's end point behavior. On the valence-quark domain, similar outcomes characterize PqDFs. Lastly, in this connection, however, the ratio of kaon-to-pion u-quark PqDFs is found to provide a good approximation to the true parton distribution function ratio on 0.4 ≲ x ≲ 0.8, suggesting that with existing resources computations of ratios of parton quasidistributions can yield results that support empirical comparison.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Nanjing Univ. (China). Dept. of Physics
  2. Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China). School of Physics
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
  4. Nanjing Univ. (China). Dept. of Physics; Joint Center for Particle, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Nanjing (China)
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1461490
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1437330
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 97; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Xu, Shu-Sheng, Chang, Lei, Roberts, Craig D., and Zong, Hong-shi. Pion and Kaon Valence-quark Parton Quasidistributions. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.094014.
Xu, Shu-Sheng, Chang, Lei, Roberts, Craig D., & Zong, Hong-shi. Pion and Kaon Valence-quark Parton Quasidistributions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.094014
Xu, Shu-Sheng, Chang, Lei, Roberts, Craig D., and Zong, Hong-shi. Wed . "Pion and Kaon Valence-quark Parton Quasidistributions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.094014. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461490.
@article{osti_1461490,
title = {Pion and Kaon Valence-quark Parton Quasidistributions},
author = {Xu, Shu-Sheng and Chang, Lei and Roberts, Craig D. and Zong, Hong-shi},
abstractNote = {Algebraic Ansatze for the Poincare-covariant Bethe-Salpeter wave functions of the pion and kaon arc used to calculate their light-front wave functions, parton distribution amplitudes, parton quasidistribution amplitudes, valence parton distribution functions, and parton quasidistribution functions (PqDFs). The light-front wave functions arc broad, concave functions, and the scale of flavor-symmetry violation in the kaon is roughly 15%, being set by the ratio of emergent masses in the s- and u-quark sectors. Parton quasidistribution amplitudes computed with longitudinal momentum Pz = 1.75 GeV provide a semiquantitatively accurate representation of the objective parton distribution amplitude, but even with Pz = 3 GeV, they cannot provide information about this amplitude's end point behavior. On the valence-quark domain, similar outcomes characterize PqDFs. Lastly, in this connection, however, the ratio of kaon-to-pion u-quark PqDFs is found to provide a good approximation to the true parton distribution function ratio on 0.4 ≲ x ≲ 0.8, suggesting that with existing resources computations of ratios of parton quasidistributions can yield results that support empirical comparison.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.97.094014},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = ,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Leading-twist two-dressed-parton light-front wave functions of the pion (upper panel) and kaon (lower panel). Each is normalised such that ∫ dxd2k⊥ψ↑↓(x, k$2\atop{⊥}$) = 1.

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