Covariant light-front approach for s-wave and p-wave mesons: Its application to decay constants and form factors

HY Cheng, CK Chua, CW Hwang - Physical Review D, 2004 - APS
We study the decay constants and form factors of the ground-state s-wave and low-lying p-
wave mesons within a covariant light-front approach. Numerical results of the form factors for …

Nonperturbative light-front Hamiltonian methods

JR Hiller - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
We examine the current state-of-the-art in nonperturbative calculations done with
Hamiltonians constructed in light-front quantization of various field theories. The language of …

Consistency of the pion form factor and unpolarized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions beyond leading twist in the light-front quark model

HM Choi, CR Ji - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate the interplay among the pion's form factor, transverse momentum dependent
distributions (TMDs), and parton distribution functions (PDFs) extending our light-front quark …

Pseudoscalar meson decay constants and distribution amplitudes up to the twist-4 in the light-front quark model

AJ Arifi, HM Choi, CR Ji - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In the light-front quark model (LFQM) amenable to the simultaneous study of both the mass
spectroscopy and the wave function related observables, we examine the decay constants …

Distribution amplitudes and decay constants for mesons <?format ?>in the light-front quark model

HM Choi, CR Ji - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2007 - APS
We present a calculation of the quark distribution amplitudes (DAs), the Gegenbauer
moments, and decay constants for π, ρ, K, and K* mesons using the light-front quark model …

Independence of current components, polarization vectors, and reference frames in the light-front quark model analysis of meson decay constants

AJ Arifi, HM Choi, CR Ji, Y Oh - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The issue of resulting in the same physical observables with different current components, in
particular from the minus current, has been challenging in the light-front quark model …

[HTML][HTML] Light-Front Quantum Chromodynamics: A framework for the analysis of hadron physics

BLG Bakker, A Bassetto, SJ Brodsky… - Nuclear Physics B …, 2014 - Elsevier
An outstanding goal of physics is to find solutions that describe hadrons in the theory of
strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). For this goal, the light-front …

Decay constants of pseudoscalar and vector mesons with improved holographic wavefunction

Q Chang, XN Li, XQ Li, F Su - Chinese Physics C, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We calculate the decay constants of light and heavy-light pseudoscalar and vector mesons
with improved soft-wall holographic wavefuntions, which take into account the effects of both …

Self-consistency and covariance of light-front quark models: Testing via , , and meson decay constants, and weak transition form factors

Q Chang, XN Li, XQ Li, F Su, YD Yang - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
In this paper, we test the self-consistencies of the standard and the covariant light-front quark
model and study the zero-mode issue via the decay constants of pseudoscalar (P), vector …

Consistent treatment of spin-1 mesons in the light-front quark model

W Jaus - Physical Review D, 2003 - APS
We analyze the matrix element of the electroweak current between qq vector meson states
in the framework of a covariant extension of the light-front formalism. The light-front matrix …