Analyses of decay constants and light-cone distribution amplitudes for s-wave heavy meson

TL;DR

This paper investigates the properties of light-cone distribution amplitudes for s-wave heavy mesons using light-front and heavy quark frameworks, providing calculations, comparisons, and insights into their decay constants and distribution shapes.

Contribution

It offers a detailed analysis of LCDAs for s-wave heavy mesons, including relations, calculations, and comparisons with other theoretical models, especially in the heavy quark limit.

Findings

Decay constants are nearly equal across different mesons.

LCDAs curves can differ significantly despite similar decay constants.

Heavy quark limit results align with existing B-meson LCDAs.

Abstract

In this paper, a study of light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for $s$-wave heavy meson are presented in both general and heavy quark frameworks. Within the light-front approach, the leading twist light-cone distribution amplitudes, $\phi_M(u)$, and their relevant decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar and vector mesons, $f_M$, have simple relations. These relations can be further simplified when the heavy quark limit is taken into consideration. After fixing the parameters that appear in both Gaussian and power-law wave functions, the corresponding decay constants are calculated and compared with those of other theoretical approaches. The curves and the first six $\xi$-moments of $\phi_M(u)$ are plotted and estimated. A conclusion is drawn from these results: Even though the values of the decay constants of the distinct mesons are almost equal, the curves of their LCDAs may have quite large differences, and vice versa. Additionally, in the heavy quark limit, the leading twist LCDAs, $\Phi_{Qq}(\omega)$ and $\Phi_{Qq}(\omega)$, are compared with the $B$-meson LCDAs, $\psi_+(\omega)$, suggested by the other theoretical groups.