Light-front wavefunctions of mesons by design
Li, M., Li, Y., Chen, G., Lappi, T., & Vary, J. P. (2022). Light-front wavefunctions of mesons by design. European Physical Journal C, 82(11), Article 1045. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10988-5
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European Physical Journal CPäivämäärä
2022Tekijänoikeudet
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We develop a mechanism to build the light-front wavefunctions (LFWFs) of meson bound states on a small-sized basis function representation. Unlike in a standard Hamiltonian formalism, the Hamiltonian in this method is implicit, and the information of the system is carried directly by the functional form and adjustable parameters of the LFWFs. In this work, we model the LFWFs for four charmonium states, ηcηc, J/ψJ/ψ, ψ′ψ′, and ψ(3770)ψ(3770) as superpositions of orthonormal basis functions. We choose the basis functions as eigenfunctions of an effective Hamiltonian, which has a longitudinal confining potential in addition to the transverse confining potential from light-front holographic QCD. We determine the basis function parameters and superposition coefficients by employing both guidance from the nonrelativistic description of the meson states and the experimental measurements of the meson decay widths. With the obtained wavefunctions, we study the features of those meson states, including charge radii and parton distribution functions. We use the J/ψJ/ψ LFWF to calculate the meson production in diffractive deep inelastic scattering and ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions, and the ηcηc LFWF to calculate its diphoton transition form factor. Both results show good agreement with experiments. The obtained LFWFs have simple-functional forms and can be readily used to predict additional experimental observables.
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M. Li and T. Lappi are supported by the Academy of Finland, project 321840 and under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme by the European Research Council (ERC, Grant agreement no. ERC-2015-CoG-681707 and ERC-2018-AdG-835105) and by the STRONG-2020 project (Grant agreement no. 824093). Y. Li, G. Chen and J. P. Vary are supported in part by the US Department of Energy (DOE) under Grant no. DE-FG02-87ER40371. ...Lisenssi
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