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Monday·March 20, 2023

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  1. 02

    [Submitted on 16 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Light-front Wave Functions of Vector Mesons in an Algebraic Model

    B. Almeida-Zamora🇲🇽 · J.J. Cobos-Martínez🇲🇽 · A. Bashir🇲🇽 · K. Raya🇪🇸 · J. Rodríguez-Quintero🇪🇸 · J. Segovia🇪🇸

    Inspired by the recent development of an algebraic model which provides an adequate and unified description of the internal structure of the lowest-lying pseudo-scalar mesons, belonging both to the light quarks sector and to the one of heavy quarks, we perform its first extension to the vector-meson case. The algebraic model describes meson's structure in terms of the spectral density function that appears in a Nakanishi integral representation of the covariant quark-antiquark bound-state amplitude, \emph{i.e.}, the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude. We compute the leading-twist light-front wave functions of the , , and mesons through their connection with the parton distribution amplitudes. Among the results we present, the following are of particular interest: (i) transverse light-front wave functions can be obtained algebraically from the corresponding parton distribution amplitudes, whereas that is not the case for longitudinal light-front wave functions, which requires an intermediate step where a spectral density function must be derived from the particular parton distribution amplitude; (ii) the derived spectral density functions show marked differences between light and heavy vector mesons, the latter being narrower as compared to the former; these are also non-positive definite, although the integral over the entire curve is larger than zero as expected; and (iii) the longitudinal and transverse light-front wave functions of vector mesons with light quark content exhibit steep - and -dependence, while those of the and mesons are characterized by narrow distributions in the -range but, comparatively, much more gradual fall-offs with respect to the -range depicted.

    Comments:
    13 pages, 7 figures and 4 tables. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.09581 [pdf]
    PRD(2023)·14 citations
  2. 03

    [Submitted on 17 Mar 2023] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Nuclear decay anomalies as a signature of axion dark matter

    Xin Zhang🇨🇳 · Nick Houston🇨🇳 · Tianjun Li🇨🇳

    A number of nuclear decay anomalies have been reported in the literature, which purport to show periodic variations in the decay rates of certain radioisotopes. If these reports reflect reality, they would necessitate a seismic shift in our understanding of fundamental physics. We provide the first mechanism to explain these findings, via the misalignment mechanism of QCD axion dark matter, wherein oscillations of the effective angle induce periodic variation in nuclear binding energies and hence decay rates. As we expect this effect to be most pronounced in low- systems, we analyse 12 years of tritium decay data ( 18.6 keV) taken at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Finding no statistically significant excess, we exclude axion decay constants below GeV (95% confidence level) for masses in the eV range.

    Comments:
    5 pages plus supplementary material. V3: updated to match published version
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    2303.09865 [pdf]
    PRD(2023)·19 citations

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