Internal structure of light mesons using the power law wave function

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Main Authors: Puhan, Satyajit, Kumar, Narinder, Dahiya, Harleen
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Published: 2026
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author Puhan, Satyajit
Kumar, Narinder
Dahiya, Harleen
author_facet Puhan, Satyajit
Kumar, Narinder
Dahiya, Harleen
contents In this paper, we study the internal structure of light pseudoscalar mesons using spin improved power-law wave functions. We choose the pion and the kaon for our work. We use the standard quark-quark correlation functions to calculate the distribution amplitudes (DAs), parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs), and generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) at zero skewness and form factors. We present all the above distribution functions through the overlap of light-front wave functions (LFWFs). We use leading-order Efremov-Radyushkin-Brodsky-Lepage (ERBL) equations for DAs and next-to-leading-order (NLO) Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) equations for PDFs to evolve them to higher scales. We find that only 41\% of the longitudinal momentum fraction is carried by the quark and antiquark of both pion and kaon at 16~GeV$^2$. The vector form factors for both the pion and the kaon are found to be in good agreement with experimental data. Similarly, the electromagnetic charge radii are found to be 0.668~fm and 0.704~fm for the pion and kaon, respectively.
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spellingShingle Internal structure of light mesons using the power law wave function
Puhan, Satyajit
Kumar, Narinder
Dahiya, Harleen
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In this paper, we study the internal structure of light pseudoscalar mesons using spin improved power-law wave functions. We choose the pion and the kaon for our work. We use the standard quark-quark correlation functions to calculate the distribution amplitudes (DAs), parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs), and generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) at zero skewness and form factors. We present all the above distribution functions through the overlap of light-front wave functions (LFWFs). We use leading-order Efremov-Radyushkin-Brodsky-Lepage (ERBL) equations for DAs and next-to-leading-order (NLO) Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) equations for PDFs to evolve them to higher scales. We find that only 41\% of the longitudinal momentum fraction is carried by the quark and antiquark of both pion and kaon at 16~GeV$^2$. The vector form factors for both the pion and the kaon are found to be in good agreement with experimental data. Similarly, the electromagnetic charge radii are found to be 0.668~fm and 0.704~fm for the pion and kaon, respectively.
title Internal structure of light mesons using the power law wave function
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07049