scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Constraining gluon density of pions at large x by pion-induced J / ψ production

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the color evaporation model is applied to the pion parton distribution functions and it is shown that the existing pion-induced $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ production data, usually not included in the global fits, can impose useful additional constraints.
Abstract
The gluon distributions of the pion obtained from various global fits exhibit large variations among them. Within the framework of the color evaporation model, we show that the existing pion-induced $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ production data, usually not included in the global fits, can impose useful additional constraints on the pion parton distribution functions (PDFs). In particular, these data can probe the pion's gluon densities at large $x$. Existing pion-induced $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ data covering a broad range of beam momenta are compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations using various sets of pion PDFs. It is found that $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ data measured at forward rapidity and at sufficiently high beam momentum are sensitive to the large-$x$ gluon distribution of pions. The current $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ data favor the Sutton-Martin-Roberts-Stirling and Gluck-Reya-Vogt pion PDFs, containing significant gluon content at large $x$.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal Article

Electron Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier

TL;DR: The science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community, is presented in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI

Electron-ion collider in China

Daniele Paolo Anderle, +108 more
TL;DR: In this article, an Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) has been proposed, which will be constructed based on an upgraded heavy-ion accelerator, High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), together with a new electron ring.
Journal ArticleDOI

Kaon and pion parton distributions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed parameter-free predictions for the pointwise behavior of all the DF functions, including glue and sea, based on the leading-twist two-particle distribution amplitudes.
Journal ArticleDOI

Insights into the emergence of mass from studies of pion and kaon structure

TL;DR: There are two mass generating mechanisms in the standard model of particle physics (SM), one related to the Higgs boson and fairly well understood, and the other embedded in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the SM's strong interaction piece; and although responsible for emergence of the roughly 1 GeV mass scale that characterises the proton and hence all observable matter, the source and impacts of this emergent hadronic mass remain puzzling as mentioned in this paper.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Rigorous QCD analysis of inclusive annihilation and production of heavy quarkonium

TL;DR: In this paper, a rigorous analysis of the annihilation decay rates of heavy quarkonium states is presented, with coefficients that can be computed using perturbation theory in non-relativistic QCD.
Journal ArticleDOI

LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the LHAPDF-6 library, a ground-up re-engineering of the PDFLIB/LHAPDF paradigm for PDF access which removes all limits on use of concurrent PDF sets, massively reduces static memory requirements, offers improved CPU performance, and fixes fundamental bugs in multi-set access to PDF metadata.
Journal ArticleDOI

New parton distribution functions from a global analysis of quantum chromodynamics

TL;DR: Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are crucial ingredients for the calculation of the relevant cross sections for various scattering processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). as mentioned in this paper found new PDFs, which will be important for the data analysis at the LHC Run-2.
Journal ArticleDOI

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

Nora Brambilla, +69 more
TL;DR: The early years of this period were chronicled in the Quarkonium Working Group (QWG) CERN Yellow Report (YR) in 2004, which presented a comprehensive review of the status of the field at that time and provided specific recommendations for further progress as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI

Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier: Understanding the glue that binds us all

Alberto Accardi, +83 more
TL;DR: In this article, the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community, is presented.
Related Papers (5)