2014/05/31 by N. G. Stefanis
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.10.018
published as Phys. Lett. B 738 (2014) 483-487 · 5 pages, 3 figures embedded; v2 includes remarks on and references to AdS/QCD; v3 has 6 pages, new material on short-tailed platykurtic distribution amplitude and minor corrections and clarifications added; abstract extended and references updated
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The binding effects of quarks within hadrons are discussed in terms of the pion distribution amplitude over longitudinal momentum fractions. To understand the behavior of this quantity at different momentum scales, the concept of synchronization in complex systems has been employed. It is argued that at low momentum scales, the quarks get correlated by nonlocal quark/gluon condensates that cause an endpoint-suppressed, mainly bimodal structure of the pion distribution amplitude inferred from a sum-rule analysis. The mass generation mechanism, within the framework of Dyson–Schwinger equations, and evolution effects pull these two peaks back to the center to form at Q2→∞ the asymptotic distribution amplitude which represents the most synchronized q¯q state.