Parton distributions of light quarks and antiquarks in the proton

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137078zbMATH Open1496.81093arXiv2201.07870OpenAlexW4221158203MaRDI QIDQ2140673FDOQ2140673

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 23 May 2022

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An algebraic Ansatz for the proton's Poincar'e-covariant wave function, which includes both scalar and pseudovector diquark correlations, is used to calculate proton valence, sea, and glue distribution functions (DFs). Regarding contemporary data, a material pseudovector diquark component in the proton is necessary for an explanation of the neutron-proton structure function ratio; and a modest Pauli blocking effect in the gluon splitting function is sufficient to explain the proton's light-quark antimatter asymmetry. In comparison with pion DFs, the light-front momentum fractions carried by all identifiable parton classes are the same; on the other hand, the higher moments are different. Understanding these features may provide insights that explain distinctions between Nambu-Goldstone bosons and seemingly less complex hadrons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07870

zbMATH Keywords

nonperturbative quantum field theoryparton distributionscontinuum Schwinger function methodsemergence of massproton structurestrong interactions in the standard model of particle physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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