Modelling light-cone distribution amplitudes from non-relativistic bound states

TL;DR

This paper computes light-cone distribution amplitudes for non-relativistic bound states, including relativistic corrections, and discusses their evolution, providing insights applicable to various mesonic processes in QCD.

Contribution

It introduces a method to calculate distribution amplitudes for non-relativistic states with relativistic corrections and analyzes their renormalization-group evolution, applicable to heavy and light mesons.

Findings

Calculated distribution amplitudes at the non-relativistic scale.

Derived the anomalous dimension for the B meson distribution amplitude.

Discussed evolution equations for leading-twist and 2-particle distributions.

Abstract

We calculate light-cone distribution amplitudes for non-relativistic bound states, including radiative corrections from relativistic gluon exchange to first order in the strong coupling constant. We distinguish between bound states of quarks with equal (or similar) mass, m_1 ~ m_2, and between bound states where the quark masses are hierarchical, m_1 >> m_2. For both cases we calculate the distribution amplitudes at the non-relativistic scale and discuss the renormalization-group evolution for the leading-twist and 2-particle distributions. Our results apply to hard exclusive reactions with non-relativistic bound states in the QCD factorization approach like, for instance, (B_c -> eta_c l nu) or (e^+ e^- -> J/psi eta_c). They also serve as a toy model for light-cone distribution amplitudes of light mesons or heavy B and D mesons, for which certain model-independent properties can be derived. In particular, we calculate the anomalous dimension for the B meson distribution amplitude phi_B^-(w) in the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation and derive the according solution of the evolution equation at leading logarithmic accuracy.