[Submitted on 20 Oct 2016]
Partonic structure of neutral pseudoscalars via two photon transition form factors
Khepani Raya🇲🇽 · Minghui Ding🇨🇳 · Adnan Bashir🇲🇽 · Lei Chang🇨🇳 · Craig D. Roberts🇺🇸
The transition form factors are computed using a continuum approach to the two valence-body bound-state problem in relativistic quantum field theory, and thereby unified with equivalent calculations of electromagnetic pion elastic and transition form factors. The resulting form factor, , is consistent with available data: significantly, at accessible momentum transfers, lies well below its conformal limit. These observations confirm that the leading-twist parton distribution amplitudes (PDAs) of heavy-heavy bound-states are compressed relative to the conformal limit. A clear understanding of the distribution of valence-quarks within mesons thus emerges; a picture which connects Goldstone modes, built from the lightest-quarks in Nature, with systems containing the heaviest valence-quarks that can now be studied experimentally, and highlights basic facts about manifestations of mass within the Standard Model.
- Comments:
- 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
- Subjects:
- Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
- arXiv:
- 1610.06575 [pdf]