Power corrections to quasi-distribution amplitudes of a heavy meson

TL;DR

This paper analyzes power corrections to quasi-distribution amplitudes of heavy mesons, providing methods to include mass and QCD scale effects, crucial for precise lattice QCD extractions of LCDAs.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic approach to incorporate $m_H^{2n}/(P^z)^{2n}$ and $ ext{Lambda}_ ext{QCD}^2/(P^z)^2$ corrections in the matching procedure for heavy meson LCDAs.

Findings

Corrections are generally smaller than 20% in most regions.

Mass corrections can be computed to all orders using the moment relation.

Renormalon model addresses divergence issues in perturbative series.

Abstract

It has been recently demonstrated that lightcone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for a heavy meson, defined in the heavy quark limit, can be extracted by simulating quasi-distribution amplitudes on the lattice with a large meson momentum $P^z$. This extraction involves a two-step procedure. In the first-step, the quasi-distribution amplitudes are matched onto the QCD LCDAs in the large $P^z$ limit. In the second step, the QCD LCDAs are matched onto the desired LCDAs defined in HQET. In this work, we present the $m_H^{2n}/(P^z)^{2n}$ and $\Lambda_\text{QCD}^2/(P^z)^2$ corrections in the first step with $m_H$ being the heavy meson mass. To account for $m_H^{2n}/(P^z)^{2n}$ corrections, we employ two methods: the moment relation that can provide mass corrections to all orders, and a leading-twist projector that gives the leading-order mass corrections. For the $\Lambda_\text{QCD}^2/(P^z)^2$ corrections, we employ a renormalon model that addresses the renormalon ambiguity stemming from the divergence of the perturbative series. We adopt two parametrizations for QCD LCDAs to conduct a numerical analysis. The results suggest that these corrections are typically smaller than 20\% in most regions, and should be included in a precision analysis. These findings will serve as a valuable guide for future studies on heavy meson LCDAs, particularly in the context of Lattice QCD, where accounting for such corrections is crucial for improving the accuracy and reliability of the results.