Valence quark, sea, and gluon content of the pion from the parton distribution functions and the electromagnetic form factor

B Pasquini, S Rodini, S Venturini, (MAP Collaboration) - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present a light-front model calculation of the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs)
and the pion electromagnetic form factor. The pion state is modeled in terms of light-front …

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 …

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 …

Semileptonic and radiative decays of the meson in the light-front quark model

HM Choi, CR Ji - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2009 - APS
We investigate the exclusive semileptonic B c→(D, η c, B, B s) ℓ ν ℓ, η b→ B c ℓ ν ℓ (ℓ= e, μ,
τ) decays using the light-front quark model constrained by the variational principle for the …

The vector meson form factor analysis in light-front dynamics

BLG Bakker, HM Choi, CR Ji - Physical Review D, 2002 - APS
We study the form factors of vector mesons using a covariant fermion field theory model in
3+ 1 dimensions. Performing a light-front (LF) calculation in the q+= 0 frame in parallel with a …

Electromagnetic structure of the meson in the light-front quark model

HM Choi, CR Ji - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2004 - APS
We investigate the elastic form factors of the ρ meson in the light-front quark model (LFQM).
With the phenomenologically accessible meson vertices including the one obtained by the …

Pion generalized parton distributions with covariant and light-front constituent quark models

T Frederico, E Pace, B Pasquini, G Salme - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2009 - APS
We investigate the model dependence of no-helicity flip generalized parton distribution of
the pion upon different approaches for the quark-hadron and quark-photon vertices, in the …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy flavor conserved semi-leptonic decay of Bs in the covariant light-front approach

YJ Shi, ZP Xing - Nuclear Physics B, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the heavy flavor conserved semi-leptonic decay B s→ B ℓ ν in the covariant light
front approach. The covariant light front quark model is used to calculate the transition form …

Pair term in the electromagnetic current within the Front-Form dynamics: spin-0 case

J De Melo, T Frederico, E Pace, G Salme - Nuclear Physics A, 2002 - Elsevier
The frame and scale dependence of the pair-term contribution to the electromagnetic form
factor of a spin-zero composite system of two-fermions is studied within the Light Front. The …