Pion Valence-quark Parton Distribution Function
Oct 30, 20144 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 749 (2015) 547-550
- Published: Aug 15, 2015
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- 1410.8250 [nucl-th]
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Within the Dyson–Schwinger equation formulation of QCD, a rainbow ladder truncation is used to calculate the pion valence-quark distribution function (PDF). The gap equation is renormalized at a typical hadronic scale, of order 0.5 GeV, which is also set as the default initial scale for the pion PDF. We implement a corrected leading-order expression for the PDF which ensures that the valence-quarks carry all of the pion's light-front momentum at the initial scale. The scaling behavior of the pion PDF at a typical partonic scale of order 5.2 GeV is found to be (1−x)ν , with ν≃1.6 , as x approaches one.Note:
- 5 pages, 2 figures
- Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
- Dyson–Schwinger equations
- π -meson
- Parton distribution functions
- π-meson
- parton
- distribution function
- dynamical symmetry breaking: chiral
- higher-order: 0
- Dyson-Schwinger equation
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