Highlights of pion and kaon structure from continuum analyses

TL;DR

This paper reviews the internal structure of pions and kaons, key hadrons in QCD, using light front wave functions and distributions to shed light on their mass and dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of pion and kaon structures through continuum methods, highlighting new insights into their internal distributions and properties.

Findings

Detailed characterization of pion and kaon distributions

Insights into mass generation mechanisms in QCD

Advances in understanding hadron structure from continuum analyses

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges in contemporary physics is understanding the origin and dynamics of the internal structure of hadrons which, at a fundamental level, is described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Taking great prominence amongst hadrons are pions and kaons which, despite being the lightest hadrons in nature, their very existence is intimately connected to those mechanisms responsible for almost all of the mass of the visible matter. In this manuscript we discuss many aspects of the pion and kaon structure via light front wave functions and generalized parton distributions, and a collection of other distributions and structural properties that are inferred therefrom.