Off-shell pion properties: electromagnetic form factors and light-front wave functions

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Main Authors: Leão, Jurandi, de Melo, J. Pacheco B. C., Frederico, T., Choi, Ho-Meoyng, Ji, Chueng-Ryong
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author Leão, Jurandi
de Melo, J. Pacheco B. C.
Frederico, T.
Choi, Ho-Meoyng
Ji, Chueng-Ryong
author_facet Leão, Jurandi
de Melo, J. Pacheco B. C.
Frederico, T.
Choi, Ho-Meoyng
Ji, Chueng-Ryong
contents The off-shell pion electromagnetic form factors are explored with corresponding off-shell light-front wave functions modeled by constituent quark and anti-quark. We apply the Mandelstam approach for the microscopic computation of the form factors relating the model parameters with the pion decay constant and charge radius. Analyzing the existing data on the cross-sections for the Sullivan process, H(e,e',pi)n, we extract the off-shell pion form factor using the relation derived from the generalized Ward-Takahashi identity for the pion electromagnetic current. They are compared with our previous results from exactly solvable manifestly covariant model of a (3+1)-dimensional fermion field theory. We find that the adopted constituent quark model reproduces the extracted off-shell form factor $F_1(Q^2,t)$ from the experimental data within a few percent difference and matches well with our previous theoretical simulation which exhibits a variation of about 10\% for the extracted off-shell pion form factor $g(Q^2,t)$. We also identify the pion valence parton distribution function (PDF) and transverse momentum distribution (TMD) in terms of the light-front wave function and discuss their off-shell properties.
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spellingShingle Off-shell pion properties: electromagnetic form factors and light-front wave functions
Leão, Jurandi
de Melo, J. Pacheco B. C.
Frederico, T.
Choi, Ho-Meoyng
Ji, Chueng-Ryong
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
The off-shell pion electromagnetic form factors are explored with corresponding off-shell light-front wave functions modeled by constituent quark and anti-quark. We apply the Mandelstam approach for the microscopic computation of the form factors relating the model parameters with the pion decay constant and charge radius. Analyzing the existing data on the cross-sections for the Sullivan process, H(e,e',pi)n, we extract the off-shell pion form factor using the relation derived from the generalized Ward-Takahashi identity for the pion electromagnetic current. They are compared with our previous results from exactly solvable manifestly covariant model of a (3+1)-dimensional fermion field theory. We find that the adopted constituent quark model reproduces the extracted off-shell form factor $F_1(Q^2,t)$ from the experimental data within a few percent difference and matches well with our previous theoretical simulation which exhibits a variation of about 10\% for the extracted off-shell pion form factor $g(Q^2,t)$. We also identify the pion valence parton distribution function (PDF) and transverse momentum distribution (TMD) in terms of the light-front wave function and discuss their off-shell properties.
title Off-shell pion properties: electromagnetic form factors and light-front wave functions
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07743