Imaging dynamical chiral symmetry breaking: pion wave function on the light front

Jan, 2013
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 110 (2013) 13, 132001
  • Published: Mar 28, 2013
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Abstract: (APS)
We project onto the light front the pion’s Poincaré-covariant Bethe-Salpeter wave function obtained using two different approximations to the kernels of quantum chromodynamics’ Dyson-Schwinger equations. At an hadronic scale, both computed results are concave and significantly broader than the asymptotic distribution amplitude, φπasy(x)=6x(1-x); e.g., the integral of φπ(x)/φπasy(x) is 1.8 using the simplest kernel and 1.5 with the more sophisticated kernel. Independent of the kernels, the emergent phenomenon of dynamical chiral-symmetry breaking is responsible for hardening the amplitude.
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  • 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
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  • 11.10.St
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  • dynamical symmetry breaking: chiral
  • pi: wave function
  • covariance: Poincare
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • Bethe-Salpeter equation
  • Dyson-Schwinger equation