Pion Distribution Functions and Kaon Distribution Amplitude and Functions as a Bound System in 1 + 1 Dimensional QCD ()
1. Introduction
Recently, pion valence quark and u-quark distribution functions (π v(u)PDF) have become a hot topic in Hadron physics. π v(u)PDF has long history but we can say that people’s recent concern for π v(u)PDF follows two points. One point is asymptotic behavior and the other one is when this asymptotic behavior starts. Concern to asymptotic behavior maintains fairly long after showing the result that asymptotic behavior of E615 results [1] does not include NLO (next leading order) calculation and its reanalysis results [2] include NLO calculation, which are different. The former asymptotic behavior is exponent of
about 1 (contradict to QCD (quantum chromodynamics) prediction), but the latter one is about 2 (or more) (follow to QCD prediction). For theoretical side, the former asymptotic behavior is supported by constituent quark model [3], Nambu-Jona-Lasino model [4], duality argument [5] and recently, Pasquini et al. [6] and Xie et al. [7], while the latter behavior is supported by Dyson Schwinger equation [8]-[12] and recent Lattice QCD calculation [13] [14]. For the second concern, it starts after phenomenological analysis such as JAM [15] and xFitter [16] (JAM and xFitter are working team’s name), which include NLO consideration, show that, in the range of medium x to close to 1, one half of their π vPDF, i.e., π uPDF, behave as close to that of E615 original analysis data, which means close to linear of
when x approaches 1. Note that both xFitter and JAM analysis are based on what form of π vPDF can generate cross-sections that agree with those of considered experiments. However, phenomenological analysis is not sued to argue asymptotic behavior because data set becomes unreliable when x approaches 1 (cross-section itself becomes obscure and number of data is small). In addition, even Dyson Schwinger model [11], which employs inhomogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation, shows that the actual asymptotic behavior appears at really large Q, that is, x is far closer to 1 than commonly considered.
For kaon distribution functions case, in the absence of empirical information, to separate the quark flavor PDFs in the kaon, first-principle lattice QCD simulations can be used to complement the experimental measurement. For this approach (Lattice QCD), ETM collaboration [17] shows momentum fraction of valence quarks and that of gluons in both pion and kaon. There are only two available experiments for extracting kaon PDFs, i.e., NA3 data [18] and J/ψ production data [19] (these experiments did not show s-quark valence structure). To extract and compare to kaon PDFs from these experiments, we refer, for example, the article of Xu et al. [20] and statistical model by Bourrely et al. [21]. Recently, JAM collaboration [22] shows a first combined QCD analysis of the experimental cross-sections and lattice moments to extract the valence quark PDFs in the pion and kaon and their impact on the gluon momentum fractions. In this paper, in Section 2, we first show π v(u)PDF based on our approximate pion distribution amplitude derived in previous paper [23]. In Section 3, we derive an approximate kaon distribution amplitude and functions which can be compared to that of pion by using nonzero mass solutions for our ‘tHooft model (bound system in 1 + 1 dimensional QCD), same as pion case (zero mass solutions) as shown in [23]. Because s-quark is much heavier than u-quark, we employ the argument of massive quark case as shown in ref. [24], so that we cannot obtain exact solutions in coordinate space. Instead, we set up inhomogeneous integro-differential equations.
2. Pion Distribution Function
We showed a pion distribution amplitude in previous paper [23]. Here, we describe pion distribution functions based on our approximate pion distribution amplitude. Our approximate pion distribution amplitude is described as
(1)
where
,
and x is fraction defined in the region as
, and
is a coupling constant.
The valence quark distribution functions
is defined as
= normalized distribution amplitude multiplied by
(2)
Thus, in our case, our distribution functions is obtained as
(3)
Figure 1 shows our pion valence quark distribution functions obtained by Equation (3). Pion valence quark distribution functions with
and
correspond to twice larger than those shown in Figure 2(A) and Figure 2(B) in Raya et al.’s paper [25]. According to Raya et al., a distribution function (π uPDFs) shown in Figure 2(A) represents rest frame case and that shown in Figure 2(B) represents deep inelastic scattering case that is able to compare to E615 data. The reason why our peak values are twice larger than that of common pion u quark distribution functions is that our valence quark distribution functions represent system because they are derived from a charged pion wave function, which represents (or
). Because pion is the Nambu-Goldstone boson mode of QCD, its mass becomes zero at chiral limit (massless quark case). Our wave function is derived in this situation as shown in [23]. Twice larger value is shown both in xFittar [16] and JAM [15] analysis. Important point is that both xFittar and JAM derive a valence quark distribution function by fitting to cross-section data (xFittar used E615, NA10 (286 (GeV) and 194 (GeV)) and WA70 data and JAM used same data as xFittar except Hera data instead of WA70). Thus, in order to compare to common E615 data, we have to multiply a factor
. Pasquini et al. also show this procedure in ref. [6].
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Figure 1. Pion valence quark distribution functions (blue curve
case and red curve
case).
Both xFittar and JAM show that peak value is around 0.7 to 0.8 and peak point is about x = 0.4. Our
valence quark distribution functions shows similar results. If we can consider that rest frame distribution functions corresponds to that of initial scale case, we can set 0.85 (GeV) for initial scale
of our
distribution functions and that value is adopted by Pasquini et al. [6]. Pasquini et al. describe an evolution pion u-quark distribution functions at
(GeV2), i.e.,
(GeV). Note that Pasquini et al. use notation
instead of Q. Thus, momentum acceleration is about 6 times as much. We use this consideration to obtain
valence quark distribution functions. In ‘tHooft model, mass square is propotional to
. This means that dimension of
is (GeV)2, so that dimension of u in
is same as momenta (GeV) because
is dimensionless and we set
(c is velocity of light and
is Plank constant divided by 2π).
Thus, momentum acceleration means that u value is 6 times as much. This dimensional consideration can be confirmed as follows. In previous paper [23], u is set after changing variable as
(or
)
(or
) (this x is space coordinate), so that u is dimensionless. In this case,
is dimensionless. Then, to obtain
(this x is fraction),
is described as (Momentum dimensional value)
= (momentum dimensional value)
. Then,
is dimensionless and can be denoted as x (fraction). Now, u is multiplied by this (momentum dimensional value). Thus, dimension of u in
is momentum (GeV).
Note that common method to obtain an accelerated distribution function which can be compared to experimental data is adopting DGLAP evolution equation [26] from initial scale distribution function. Wu et al. [27] mention that, in the deep inelastic scattering, the hadron can be regarded as moving with an infinite momentum frame (IMF). In IMF, the hadron is moving with infinite four momentum (E, P) in the z direction. Then, they show that rest frame four-momentum
transfers to four-momentum
by inverse Lorenz boost and that rest frame p can be expressed by IMF variables
when taking
, where
is longitudinal momentum of quarks in IMF (momentum consideration). Using this expression of wave function, they obtain distribution amplitude at initial momentum scale. Then, they obtain distribution function by DGLAP evolution equation (essentially coupling constant consideration). This means that they consider two processes that are momentum consideration and coupling constant consideration to obtain distribution functions from rest frame wave function. In our case, rest frame wave function is obtained in 1 + 1 dimensions. As shown in ref. [23], the proper distribution amplitude in rest frame is obtained by Fourier Transform with choosing
value that is choosing coupling constant
value as fixing momentum u (coupling constant consideration). Distribution functions of deep inelastic scattering is expressed as in moving frame so that change of
value needs change of momentum u because coupling constant
is already chosen (momentum consideration). Thus, we also consider two processes that are momentum consideration and coupling constant consideration as same as Wu et al.
Figure 2 shows our pion u-quark distribution functions compared to E615 original analysis data [1]. Here, we use the following relation equation between valence quark distribution functions ( system) and u-quark distributions (q only).
Figure 2. Pion u quark distribution functions: pion u-quark (blue curve), E615 data (red dots).
(4)
In our case,
(5)
3. Kaon Distribution Function
In order to derive kaon distribution functions, we need to obtain kaon distribution amplitude as shown in the case of that of pion [23]. For pion, as mentioned before, we used the fact that pion mass is zero in the chiral limit (massless quarks) because of pion is the Nambu-Goldstone boson mode. Thus, we used a wave function of our ‘tHooft model with zero mass case. For kaon, although kaon is also considered as the Nambu-Goldstone boson mode of QCD [28], we use the same consideration to construct kaon mass spectrum in 3 + 1 dimension massive quark case [24] instead of using chiral limit consideration. Main reason is following. We cannot express exact next mass besides zero-mass that should be kaon mass [29]. Thus, we prefer to representation of distribution amplitude and functions without explicit dependence of
. In fact, we can obtain distribution amplitude and functions without dependence of
as shown in later by using this consideration. In ref. [24], to obtain kaon mass spectrum, we used a wave function of
for massless quark case (chiral limit case) and applied the first order perturbation by considering quark mass term as perturbative Hamiltonian. Thus, in this time, we first construct an equation of motion with massive quark in 1 + 1 dimension case. Recalling the fact that distribution amplitude corresponds Fourier Transform of the space coordinate wave function [23], we do not have to consider the corresponding eigenvalue (mass) but need only space coordinate wave function. Thus, we can consider the quark mass term as inhomogeneous part of inhomogeneous second order integro-differential equation.
Before constructing an equation of motion with massive quark case in 1 + 1 dimensions, we check our equation motion in 3 + 1 dimensions by comparing to that of Suura. Suura’s definition of gauge invariant operator
is described as [30]
(6)
where
denotes trace of color spin a and P denotes path ordering with straight line and
denote Dirac indices. Note that actual Suura’s notation of Dirac indices are
and
.
Note that Suura defined Dirac indices in QED case and Trace for color and path ordering were represented in QCD case. Note that Suura’s representation of path ordering is
and Trace of color is explained by words.
Our case of gauge invariant operator
is, for example, described as in ref. [31] as
(7)
Comparing Equation (6) and Equation (7), only difference is position of
. If we move this quark field of Equation (7) to the same position of Equation (6), minus sign will appear because of anti-commutation of quark and anti-quark fields. This means that only difference between Equation (6) and Equation (7) is sign. Then, first we compare kinetic terms.
Suura’s definition of kinetic terms is
where
means
operating from left (right) on
.
This means that kinetic terms become
(8)
When we consider relative coordinate as , Equation (6) becomes
(9)
where
and
denote Suura’s and ours of gauge invariant operator, respectively.
Equation (9) shows that our definition of kinetic terms is also derived from Suura’s one.
For massive quark case, Dirac equation becomes as
(10)
(11)
Note that normal notation of
is
.
Equation (10) and Equation (11) are obtained from the representation of Dirac equation as
(12)
Adopting metric is
,
.
Adopting
-matrices are
This description is following Weinberg’s one [32].
For Suura’s definition of gauge invariant operator case, massive quark terms become from Equation (10) and Equation (11) as
(13)
Thus, for our definition of gauge invariant operator case, massive quark terms become
(14)
Decomposition of gauge invariant operator is
(15)
Then, massive quark terms become
Unit matrix component term:
(16)
component:
(17)
component:
(18)
component:
(19)
Thus, by using anti-particle argument mentioned in ref. [24], massive quark terms affecting our equation of motion are following:
component:
(20)
component:
(21)
This is exactly same form obtained in ref. [24].
Above results are important to construct an equation of motion with massive quark in 1 + 1 dimensions because we do not have proper Dirac equation in 1 + 1 (or 2) dimensions. We have to employ Dirac equation with massive quark in 3 + 1 dimensions to that in 1 + 1 dimension as an analogous form.
Thus, our equation of motion with massive quarks in 1 + 1 dimensions becomes
(22)
where
(23)
(24)
Note that
and
indicate
and
, respectively and that Equation (22) except mass terms is same as equation of motion adopting in previous paper [23].
We employ the metric system and
-matrices in 1 + 1 dimensions as follows.
Note that sign of metric system is different from that in ref. [23] because of consideration of massive quark terms as mentioned before, and that we employed
-matrices defined by Casher et al. [33].
The Bethe-Salpeter like amplitude is defined by sandwiching between vacuum state and physical state as
(25)
Because decomposition of gauge invariant operator in 1 + 1 dimensions is
(26)
After taking center of mass coordinate and relative coordinate as described in ref. [23], the Bethe-Salpeter like amplitude with massive quarks becomes
(27)
(28)
(29)
(30)
Note that we omit
term because we are considering large N limit case and that when
(rest frame case),
should be
.
From Equation (27) and Equation (28),
becomes
(31)
Substituting Equation (31) into Equation (30), Equation (30) becomes
(32)
Using Equation (29) and Equation (31) and taking
, we obtain following equations:
(33)
(34)
As described in ref. [23], we solve Equation (33) first. Because it is difficult to solve Equation (33) exactly, we use the following approximation. For the last term,
, (depending quark mass term), we take mass zero (
(
)) solution derived in ref. [23] which is related to our pion wave function in 1 + 1 dimensions. Then, we consider the approximated last term of Equation (33) as an inhomogeneous term and after taking derivative with respect to r and some manipulation including Sokhotsky formula to singular integral equation [34] described in ref. [23], we can construct the inhomogeneous second order differential equation as
(35)
(36)
where
,
and
are constants determined later.
Note that we change the notation of space coordinate r to x in Equation (35) and Equation (36) because we are working in the framework of 1 + 1 dimensions. From now on, we use this notation for space coordinate.
Note that Equation (35) and Equation (36) are composed by the quantities when x asymptotically approaches real axis in the upper-half hemisphere and in the lower-half hemisphere, respectively.
Homogeneous parts of equations for Equation (35) and Equation (36) are obtained by setting left-hand side of equations be zero for both cases as
(37)
(38)
One of the solutions is given in ref. [23] for both equations. These solutions are as follows:
(39)
(40)
where
,
.
As shown in Appendix C of ref. [23], the characteristic part of solution described in Equation (39) is Weber function
type and that in Equation (40) is Weber function
type.
Thus, the other solution for Equation (35) must be Weber function
type and that for Equation (36) must be Weber function
type. Because of
for Equation (35) and
for Equation (36), the other solutions for Equation (35) and Equation (36) become
(41)
(42)
Then, Equation (39) and Equation (41) are considered as basic solutions for homogeneous second order differential equation described in Equation (35) and Equation (40) and Equation (42) are considered as basic solutions for homogeneous second order differential equation described in Equation (36).
In order to construct particular solutions, we follow the argument of Ince [35]. Our case’s Wronskian are defined as
(43)
(44)
Equation (43) is Wronskian of Equation (35) and Equation (44) is Wronskian of Equation (36).
Using the following relation equation for derivative of Whittaker function
[36]
(45)
the form of
and
are described as
(46)
where
(47)
where
According to Ince [35], when the basic solutions of homogeneous part are given as
and
and inhomogeneous part is given as
, the particular solution is defined as
Lower limit of integral is chosen by boundary condition consideration.
Thus, our case of particular solutions becomes
(48)
(49)
Note that we omit coefficients of basic solutions in both Equation (48) and Equation (49) because these are inefficient for particular solutions.
Each Wronskian is described as
(50)
(51)
(52)
(53)
To construct distribution amplitude, that is a function in momentum space, we consider Fourier Transform of particular solution
as shown in ref. [23].
(54)
(55)
First, we consider Equation (54).
We work out integral as
.
For the first integral, changing variables
and
, integral part,
, becomes
(56)
Note that we take
in this region by using the argument in ref. [23] and taking
here.
For
,
(57)
Note that
because we take
in Equation (56).
Equation (57) shows change of variables generates the factor i for Equation (56).
For large
case, it is sufficient to consider very small
. Then, integral part of particular solution can be described by series expansion as
(58)
Recalling the fact that
is not zero but small (
is small) and that we are considering very small x case, integrand of the first part of particular solutions
can be expressed as
(59)
Recalling the fact that
can be expressed by the first term of
of which exponent of z is dependent of only
when z is very small (
is very small), we can set
,
, so that we obtain the second line.
Using the same argument for
part, we obtain its integrand as
(60)
From the integral region,
. The particular solution which is composed by multiplying the second term of expansion
to basic solution becomes
(61)
(62)
Recalling that we are considering the case that
is very small, we obtain the first part of Fourier Transform of the particular solution as
(63)
We employ same consideration for the Fourier Transform of the second part of particular solution. Then,
becomes as
(64)
Note that
term appears in Equation (64) because we take
for
case as same as that for
case.
For Equation (55), we employ the same argument used for Equation (54).
Then, after changing variables as
, and
, Wronskian of the first part of the particular solution becomes
(65)
Equation (65) shows Wronskian part generates
for integrand for Equation (55) case because we take
instead of
here.
Using the series expansion for integral part as shown in Equation (58), Fourier Transform of the first part of the particular solution of Equation (55) becomes
(66)
(67)
To solve Equation (34), we can use same argument for solving Equation (33) as shown before. As shown in ref. [23], basic solutions of
can obtain by replacing
to
, that is replacing
to
, in those of
. That means that we can obtain basic solutions of
by replacing
to
in Equation (39) to Equation (42). Because inhomogeneous part is the same as that of Equation (33), all argument for solving Equation (33) can be used by just replacing
to
. Because Fourier Transform of the particular solution for Equation (33) is independent of
shown in Equations (63) - (64) and Equations (66) - (67), Fourier Transform of the particular solution of Equation (34) is composed by the same form as in Equations (63) - (64) and Equations (66) - (67). Recalling the relation
, we can construct Fourier Transform of
as follows.
To invoke the condition that inhomogeneous part is pion wave function, we set
and
as following.
(68)
(69)
Note that
term is cancelled out.
Then, Fourier Transform of
can be expressed as
(70)
Note that
defined in Equations (35) - (36) is omitted because we are interesting in constructing distribution amplitude that is defined by normalized form and that, apart from constant, Equation (70) is exactly same form as Fourier Transform of pion wave function in large
case after taking
in ref. [23] except both integrand are multiplied by
factor. Also note that constant factor
and
are required to the condition that, for small
case, the order of
of the first term of
is linear of
(exponent of
is 1).
Before using change of variables shown in ref. [23], we employ the representation of
as following form [36] because we are interested in very large
case in which only very small x is sufficient to consider for integral.
(71)
where
is confluent hyper geometric series defined as
For very small x case, we need only the first term of Equation (71).
Recalling that
,
for the first integral and
for the second integral, respectively, Equation (70) becomes
(72)
Note that
,
and those
and
are cancelled out by our previous setting as mentioned before and that factor
is omitted because we take normalization later as mentioned before.
For Equation (72), we apply change of integral variables as same as those in ref. [23], which are for the first integral in Equation (72) and
for the second integral in Equation (72), respectively. Using contour integral as shown in ref. [23] and considering the first term of confluent hyper geometric series
because we are considering very large
case (very small
case), Equation (72) becomes as
(73)
Note that
in the first line comes from the fact that
.
To obtain the final form of approximate form of
for very large
case, we divided integral as
(74)
following the argument in ref. [23]. For very large
case, we need only the first term of Equation (74) as shown in ref. [23]. Then, integral part of Equation (73) becomes
(75)
(76)
Denoting
and
, Equation (75) and Equation (76) become
(77)
(78)
Because we are considering in the case of very large
, it is sufficient to consider the last terms of both Equation (77) and Equation (78) only. Then, we obtain the final form of approximate form of
for very large
case as
(79)
For distribution amplitude, we consider absolute value of
as shown in ref. [23]. Because distribution amplitude is defined by normalized form, the final form of approximate form of
for very large
case becomes as
(80)
For very small
case, we have to consider the case that x is sufficiently large so that we first perform integration of integral part of particular solutions. For upper half hemisphere group, integral part of particular solutions,
and
, are expressed as
(81)
(82)
First, we consider Equation (81). For large x case, that is
large,
and
become
(83)
(84)
Then,
becomes
(85)
Note that we need upper limit of integration range only because we use approximated form of Wronskian for large
case.
We use asymptotic form of
that is defined as [36]
(86)
Recalling that , .
(87)
Because
is large and
is small, essential integral of Equation (87) is expressed as
and (88)
both integral in Equation (88) become as
(89)
Because
is small, the first term is sufficient. Then, Equation (87) becomes
(90)
Then, for very small
case, Fourier Transform of the first part of particular solution
becomes
(91)
Note that we obtain the last line of Equation (91) using the condition that
is small and x is large.
Changing variable as and also considering contour integral as shown in ref. [23], apart from constant
is expressed as
(92)
where
.
Note that, for
case, the term
, come from
, of which real part is proportional to
cancel out
term.
In Equation (92), we use integral representation of
which is defined as [36]
(93)
Equation (92) can be evaluated as follows.
(94)
where
denotes Meijer’s G-function defined as [37]
The prime by the product symbol denotes the omission of the product when j = h. The asterisk under the symbol for the function
denotes the omission of the h-th parameter. This is defined under the condition that either
or
and
.
is called generalized hyper geometric series defined as
where
.
To obtain the last line of Equation (94), we use the following formula [37].
(95)
By following the argument given in ref. [23], Equation (94) shows that the first term of
is constant or linear of
because of
. We choose the latter case so that the first term of
is linear of
because this satisfies the similarity to our pion wave function. This choice means t term of G-function starts
so that this guarantees that Equation (94) is well defined because t terms come from G-function satisfies the condition that real part of exponent of t terms in integrand becomes larger than −1.
For the other part of
denoted as
, we consider Equation (82). Then, for large x case,
and
become as
(96)
(97)
Then,
becomes
(98)
Because we are considering in the case of large x case (large t case) and
small, we can cancel out Whittaker function. Then, integral of Equation (98) essentially become as
(99)
(100)
To evaluate Equation (99), we employ the following way.
(101)
Using the condition that
is large and
small, second term of the second line of Equation (101) can be evaluated as
(102)
Recalling that
is small for both Equation (101) and Equation (102), after multiplying
term, we obtain
(103)
Using similar argument for Equation (100), Equation (100) becomes
(104)
Because we are considering large x case, we can describe
in Equation (98) as
.
Then, the second part of Fourier Transform of particular solutions
for very small
case is expressed as
(105)
Changing variable as and considering contour integration as shown in ref. [23] and using integral representation of Whittaker function shown in Equation (93), apart from constants,
becomes
(106)
where
.
Note that, for
case, the term
come from
multiplies to
, so that this part becomes
.
Equation (106) shows that the first term of
is constant or linear of
. Again, we choose the case that the first term of
is linear of
.
We can employ same argument in the case of lower half hemisphere group. Then, apart from constants, we obtain
(107)
(108)
Equation (107) and Equation (108) show that, for small
case, the first term of Fourier Transform of particular solutions for lower half hemisphere group is also constant or linear of
. Thus, we can choose the condition for very small
case that the first term of Fourier Transform of particular solutions is linear of
.
Because the first term of expansion of Equation (80) becomes
, simple way for satisfying the condition that, for very small
case, the first term of Fourier Transform of particular solutions is linear of
and that, for large
case, Fourier Transform of particular solutions asymptotically approaches
is multiplying
to Equation (80).
Then, our form of kaon distribution amplitude
is expressed as
(109)
where
.
Recalling the argument in pion distribution amplitude such that
and (dimension of momentum) moves to u in
, and that region of
is
, Equation (107) becomes
(110)
Note that we change the notation from
to x (fraction)
in Equation (110) and that actual form of
in Equation (109) is
that is dimensionless. From now on, x denotes fraction. Because distribution of amplitude is defined by normalized form, we omit the factor of
in Equation (109).
As we mentioned before, distribution amplitude is defined by normalized form and distribution function is defined by multiplying x to distribution amplitude.
Thus, our kaon valence quark distribution amplitude
is described as
(111)
Kaon valence quark distribution functions
is expressed as
(112)
Then, kaon flavor-quark distribution functions becomes
(113)
Figure 3 shows comparison of u-quark distribution functions to s-quark distribution function of kaon.
Figure 3. Comparison of u-quark distribution function to s-quark distribution function of kaon: s-quark of kaon (blue curve) and u-quark of kaon (red curve).
Because mass of s-quark is much larger than that of u-quark, scale for evolution of s-quark
is different from that of u-quark
so that we use two valence quark distribution functions (each corresponds different
values), i.e., in our case,
and
. We choose these
values for obtaining appropriate
ratio shown in later. Because kaon valence quark is
and (
) or and
(
), valence quark distribution functions for both cases are composed by u-quark distribution functions and s-quark distribution functions. Thus, obtained u-quark and s-quark distribution functions are combination of two
values valence quark distribution functions. For our case, we determine s-quark distribution functions and u-quark distribution functions as follows.
(114)
(115)
where
Figure 4 shows the ratio of s-quark distribution functions of kaon to u-quark distribution functions of kaon. Our results are within 1σ uncertainty region shown in the latest JAM analysis [22].
Figure 4. Ratio of distribution function of s-quark of kaon to that of u-quark of kaon fs(k)/fu(k) (grey curve).
Figure 5 shows our kaon u-quark distribution functions and the ratio of that to pion u-quark distribution functions
. Data denotes experiment results of π-induced Drell-Yan measurements that can be interpreted in terms of
structure function ratio which is related to the ratio of u-quark distribution functions of
[18].
Figure 5. Comparison of u-quark distribution functions of kaon to that of pion u-quark distributions of kaon (blue curve), u-quark distributions of pion (red curve), ratio of u-quark distribution functions of kaon to that of pion (grey curve), and data (yellow dots).
For the ratio case, the discrepancy becomes larger in the range of
. This is because the exponent of
when x approaches 1 is 3 for our distribution functions of kaon, while that of pion is 1.
4. Results and Summary
We obtain pion valence quark distribution functions and pion u-quark distribution functions as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, respectively. Exponent of
of asymptotic limit of our pion valence quark and u-quark distribution functions is 1. Our results in Figure 2 follow E615 original analysis data. In this regard, even Dyson Schwinger equation method, adopting inhomogeneous Bethe-Salpeter equation, Bedner et al. [11] show that their results are in excellent agreement with E615 original data over the entire x domain of the data despite imposing
in their representation of pion distribution functions. In addition, very recently, Francis et al. show exponent of
is almost 1 in Lattice QCD calculation [38]. We think that their results are very suggestive. As we mentioned in ref. [23], exponent of asymptotic limit of our pion distribution function, that is 1, corresponds to
in 3 + 1 D by Drell-Yan-West relations in ref. [28]. This is different from current experiment results of charged pion (most likely
) but is consistent with our results in ref. [24].
In the case of kaon distribution amplitude and functions, our bare kaon distribution amplitude is described as Equation (110) and using normalization and multiplying x, we obtain kaon distribution functions. Our kaon u-quark and s-quark distribution functions are shown in Figure 3. The ratio of s-quark distribution functions to u-quark distribution functions is shown in Figure 4. The ratio of kaon u-quark distribution functions to pion u-quark distribution functions is shown in Figure 5.