Parton distribution functions and transverse momentum dependence of heavy mesons

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Main Authors: Serna, Fernando E., El-Bennich, Bruno, Krein, Gastão
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author Serna, Fernando E.
El-Bennich, Bruno
Krein, Gastão
author_facet Serna, Fernando E.
El-Bennich, Bruno
Krein, Gastão
contents The leading Fock state light-front wave functions of heavy quarkonia and $D$ and $B$ mesons are obtained from the projections of their Bethe-Salpeter wave functions on the light front. We compute therefrom their leading-twist time-reversal even transverse momentum distributions and parton distribution functions. Mirroring the behavior of parton distribution amplitudes, the support of both distributions is increasingly narrower and shifted towards larger $x$ as a function of the meson mass. The dependence of $x$ and $\k_\perp^2$ of the transverse distributions does not factorize into separate functions, and their fall-off with $\k_\perp^2$ is much slower than that of light mesons.
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spellingShingle Parton distribution functions and transverse momentum dependence of heavy mesons
Serna, Fernando E.
El-Bennich, Bruno
Krein, Gastão
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
The leading Fock state light-front wave functions of heavy quarkonia and $D$ and $B$ mesons are obtained from the projections of their Bethe-Salpeter wave functions on the light front. We compute therefrom their leading-twist time-reversal even transverse momentum distributions and parton distribution functions. Mirroring the behavior of parton distribution amplitudes, the support of both distributions is increasingly narrower and shifted towards larger $x$ as a function of the meson mass. The dependence of $x$ and $\k_\perp^2$ of the transverse distributions does not factorize into separate functions, and their fall-off with $\k_\perp^2$ is much slower than that of light mesons.
title Parton distribution functions and transverse momentum dependence of heavy mesons
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01441