Sketching the pion's valence-quark generalised parton distribution

Autor: C. Mezrag, L. Chang, H. Moutarde, C.D. Roberts, J. Rodríguez-Quintero, F. Sabatié, S.M. Schmidt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 741, Iss , Pp 190-196 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.12.027
Popis: In order to learn effectively from measurements of generalised parton distributions (GPDs), it is desirable to compute them using a framework that can potentially connect empirical information with basic features of the Standard Model. We sketch an approach to such computations, based upon a rainbow-ladder (RL) truncation of QCD's Dyson–Schwinger equations and exemplified via the pion's valence dressed-quark GPD, Hπv(x,ξ,t). Our analysis focuses primarily on ξ=0, although we also capitalise on the symmetry-preserving nature of the RL truncation by connecting Hπv(x,ξ=±1,t) with the pion's valence-quark parton distribution amplitude. We explain that the impulse-approximation used hitherto to define the pion's valence dressed-quark GPD is generally invalid owing to omission of contributions from the gluons which bind dressed-quarks into the pion. A simple correction enables us to identify a practicable improvement to the approximation for Hπv(x,0,t), expressed as the Radon transform of a single amplitude. Therewith we obtain results for Hπv(x,0,t) and the associated impact-parameter dependent distribution, qπv(x,|b→⊥|), which provide a qualitatively sound picture of the pion's dressed-quark structure at a hadronic scale. We evolve the distributions to a scale ζ=2 GeV, so as to facilitate comparisons in future with results from experiment or other nonperturbative methods. Keywords: Deeply virtual Compton scattering, Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, Dyson–Schwinger equations, Generalised parton distribution functions, π-meson
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