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Meijian Li

0000-0003-0167-8932

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Two-photon transitions of charmonia on the light front

2022

We investigate the two-photon transitions $H_{c\bar c} \to \gamma^*\gamma$ of the charmonium system in light-front dynamics. The light-front wave functions were obtained from solving the effective Hamiltonian based on light-front holography and one-gluon exchange interaction within the basis light-front quantization approach. We compute the two-photon transition form factors as well as the two-photon decay widths for S- and P-wave charmonia, $\eta_c$ and $\chi_{cJ}$ and their excitations. Without introducing any free parameters, our predictions are in good agreement with the recent experimental measurements by BaBar and Belle, shedding light on the relativistic nature of charmonium.

Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Nuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::Experimenthiukkasfysiikka114 Physical sciences
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Parton distribution functions of heavy mesons on the light front

2019

The parton distribution functions (PDFs) of heavy mesons are evaluated from their light-front wave functions, which are obtained from a basis light-front quantization in the leading Fock sector representation. We consider the mass eigenstates from an effective Hamiltonian consisting of the confining potential adopted from light-front holography in the transverse direction, a longitudinal confinement, and a one-gluon exchange interaction with running coupling. We present the gluon and the sea quark PDFs which we generate dynamically from the QCD evolution of the valence quark distributions.

QuarkParticle physicsMesonNuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::LatticeNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesPartonhiukkasfysiikka01 natural sciencesFock spaceNuclear Theory (nucl-th)Quantization (physics)symbols.namesakeHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)0103 physical sciencessironta010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentQuantum chromodynamicsPhysics010308 nuclear & particles physicskvarkitHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyGluonHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologysymbolsHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentkvanttikenttäteoriaHamiltonian (quantum mechanics)ydinfysiikka
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Ultrarelativistic quark-nucleus scattering in a light-front Hamiltonian approach

2020

We investigate the scattering of a quark on a heavy nucleus at high energies using the time-dependent basis light-front quantization (tBLFQ) formalism, which is the first application of the tBLFQ formalism in QCD. We present the real-time evolution of the quark wave function in a strong classical color field of the relativistic nucleus, described as the color glass condensate. The quark and the nucleus color field are simulated in the QCD SU(3) color space. We calculate the total and the differential cross sections, and the quark distribution in coordinate and color spaces using the tBLFQ approach. We recover the eikonal cross sections in the eikonal limit. We find that the differential cro…

QuarkParticle physicsNuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::LatticeNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical scienceshiukkasfysiikka01 natural sciencesColor-glass condensateNuclear Theory (nucl-th)Quantization (physics)symbols.namesakeHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)0103 physical sciencessironta010306 general physicsWave functionPhysicsQuantum chromodynamics010308 nuclear & particles physicsEikonal equationkvarkitHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyDeep inelastic scatteringHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologysymbolskvanttikenttäteoriaHamiltonian (quantum mechanics)ydinfysiikkaPhysical Review D
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Scattering and gluon emission in a color field : a light-front Hamiltonian approach

2021

We develop a numerical method to nonperturbatively study scattering and gluon emission of a quark from a colored target using a light-front Hamiltonian approach. The target is described as a classical color field, as in the color glass condensate effective theory. The Fock space of the scattering system is restricted to the |q⟩+|qg⟩ sectors, but the time evolution of this truncated system is solved exactly. This method allows us to study the interplay between coherence and multiple scattering in gluon emission. It could be applied both to studying subeikonal effects in high-energy scattering and to understanding jet quenching in a hot plasma.

Quarkelectron-ion collisionsNuclear TheoryField (physics)High Energy Physics::LatticeFOS: Physical scienceshiukkasfysiikka114 Physical sciences01 natural sciencesColor-glass condensateNuclear Theory (nucl-th)symbols.namesakeHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)deep inelastic scattering0103 physical sciencesquantum chromodynamicsEffective field theory010306 general physicsquantum field theoryPhysics010308 nuclear & particles physicsScatteringHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyTime evolutionGluonHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyQuantum electrodynamicssymbolskvanttiväridynamiikkakvanttikenttäteoriaHamiltonian (quantum mechanics)relativistic heavy-ion collisions
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Light-front wavefunctions of mesons by design

2022

AbstractWe develop a mechanism to build the light-front wavefunctions (LFWFs) of meson bound states on a small-sized basis function representation. Unlike in a standard Hamiltonian formalism, the Hamiltonian in this method is implicit, and the information of the system is carried directly by the functional form and adjustable parameters of the LFWFs. In this work, we model the LFWFs for four charmonium states, $$\eta _c$$ η c , $$J/\psi $$ J / ψ , $$\psi '$$ ψ ′ , and $$\psi (3770)$$ ψ ( 3770 ) as superpositions of orthonormal basis functions. We choose the basis functions as eigenfunctions of an effective Hamiltonian, which has a longitudinal confining potential in addition to the transver…

Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Nuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentkvanttiväridynamiikkahiukkasfysiikkaEngineering (miscellaneous)114 Physical sciences
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Forward quark jet-nucleus scattering in a light-front Hamiltonian approach

2020

We investigate the scattering of a quark jet on a high-energy heavy nucleus using the time-dependent light-front Hamiltonian approach. We simulate a real-time evolution of the quark in a strong classical color field of the relativistic nucleus, described as the Color Glass Condensate. We study the sub-eikonal effect by letting the quark jet carry realistic finite longitudinal momenta, and we find sizeable changes on the transverse coordinate distribution of the quark. We also observe the energy loss of the quark through gluon emissions in the $\ket{q}+\ket{qg}$ Fock space. This approach provides us with an opportunity to study scattering processes from non-perturbative aspects.

PhysicsQuarkParticle physicsField (physics)Nuclear TheoryScatteringkvarkitHigh Energy Physics::LatticeHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesJet (particle physics)hiukkasfysiikka114 Physical sciencesFock spaceGluonColor-glass condensateNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)High Energy Physics::ExperimentydinfysiikkaNuclear ExperimentHamiltonian (control theory)
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