Kaon Distribution Functions from Empirical Information

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Autori principali: Xu, Zhen-Ni, Binosi, Daniele, Chen, Chen, Raya, Khépani, Roberts, Craig D., Rodríguez-Quintero, José
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author Xu, Zhen-Ni
Binosi, Daniele
Chen, Chen
Raya, Khépani
Roberts, Craig D.
Rodríguez-Quintero, José
author_facet Xu, Zhen-Ni
Binosi, Daniele
Chen, Chen
Raya, Khépani
Roberts, Craig D.
Rodríguez-Quintero, José
contents Using available information from Drell-Yan data on pion and kaon structure functions, an approach is described which enables the development of pointwise profiles for all pion and kaon parton distribution functions (DFs) without reference to theories of hadron structure. The key steps are construction of structure-function-constrained probability-weighted ensembles of valence DF replicas and use of an evolution scheme for parton DFs that is all-orders exact. The DFs obtained express qualitatively sound features of light-meson structure, e.g., the effects of Higgs boson couplings into QCD and the size of heavy-quark momentum fractions in light hadrons. In order to improve the results, additional and more precise data on the $u$-quark-in-kaon, $u^K$, to $u$-quark-in-pion, $u^π$, DF ratio would be necessary. Of greater value would be extraction of $u^K$ alone, thereby avoiding inference from the ratio: currently, the data-based form of $u^K$ is materially influenced by results for $u^π$.
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spellingShingle Kaon Distribution Functions from Empirical Information
Xu, Zhen-Ni
Binosi, Daniele
Chen, Chen
Raya, Khépani
Roberts, Craig D.
Rodríguez-Quintero, José
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Using available information from Drell-Yan data on pion and kaon structure functions, an approach is described which enables the development of pointwise profiles for all pion and kaon parton distribution functions (DFs) without reference to theories of hadron structure. The key steps are construction of structure-function-constrained probability-weighted ensembles of valence DF replicas and use of an evolution scheme for parton DFs that is all-orders exact. The DFs obtained express qualitatively sound features of light-meson structure, e.g., the effects of Higgs boson couplings into QCD and the size of heavy-quark momentum fractions in light hadrons. In order to improve the results, additional and more precise data on the $u$-quark-in-kaon, $u^K$, to $u$-quark-in-pion, $u^π$, DF ratio would be necessary. Of greater value would be extraction of $u^K$ alone, thereby avoiding inference from the ratio: currently, the data-based form of $u^K$ is materially influenced by results for $u^π$.
title Kaon Distribution Functions from Empirical Information
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15376