The longitudinal leading-twist distribution amplitude of $J/\psi$ meson within background field theory

TL;DR

This paper calculates the $J/ar{ ext{psi}}$ meson distribution amplitude using QCD sum rules, determines its shape, and applies it to predict the semileptonic decay rate of $B_c$ mesons, matching experimental data.

Contribution

It provides a detailed determination of the $J/\psi$ distribution amplitude and applies it to $B_c$ decay predictions, improving understanding of heavy meson structures.

Findings

The distribution amplitude is sharply peaked around x~0.5.

Predicted $B_c$ decay width agrees with experimental measurements.

The moments of the distribution amplitude are precisely calculated.

Abstract

We make a detailed study on the $J/\psi$ meson longitudinal leading-twist distribution amplitude $\phi_{2;J/\psi}^\|$ by using the QCD sum rules within the background field theory. By keeping all the non-perturbative condensates up to dimension-six, we obtain accurate QCD sum rules for the moments $\langle\xi_{n;J/\psi}^\|\rangle$. The first three ones are $\langle\xi_{2;J/\psi}^\|\rangle=0.083(12)$, $\langle\xi_{4;J/\psi}^\|\rangle=0.015(5)$ and $\langle\xi_{6;J/\psi}^\|\rangle=0.003(2)$, leading to a single peaked behavior for $\phi_{2;J/\psi}^\|$ which is sharper than the previous ones around the region of $x\sim0.5$. As an application, we adopt the QCD light-cone sum rules to calculate the $B_c$ meson semileptonic decay $B_c^+ \to J/\psi \ell^+ \nu_\ell$. We obtain $\Gamma(B_c^+ \to J/\psi \ell^+ \nu_\ell) = (89.67^{+24.76}_{-19.06}) \times 10^{-15}~{\rm GeV}$ and $\Re(J/\psi \ell^+ \nu_\ell) = 0.217^{+0.069}_{-0.057}$, which agree with the next-to-leading order pQCD prediction and the new CDF measurement within errors.