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most citedHiggs modulation of emergent mass as revealed in kaon and pion parton distributions

47 citations · 47 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

hep-ph2026

Quest for an Understanding of Pion and Kaon Structure

Zhen-Ni Xu, Daniele Binosi, Craig D. Roberts +1

The emergence of massless (Nambu-Goldstone) bosons in association with a dynamically global broken symmetry is a long known and widespread phenomenon in physics. However, practical…

math.NA2026

Towards a new PGD strategy for the simulation of slender structures

Jean Ruel, Frédéric Legoll, Arthur Lebée +1

Effective models for slender structures derived from well-known plate (or shell) theories are justified within the limit of a small thickness, and may therefore prove limited for i…

hep-ph2026

Insights into Meson and Baryon Structure using Continuum Schwinger Function Methods

Daniele Binosi, Craig D. Roberts, Zhao-Qian Yao

The bulk of visible mass is supposed to emerge from nonperturbative dynamics within quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Following years of development and refinement, continuum and latti…

hep-ph2026

Helicity Dependent Distribution Functions of the Proton and and Baryons

Yang Yu, Peng Cheng, Hui-Yu Xing +2

Using continuum Schwinger function methods, a coherent set of predictions for proton, and distribution functions (DFs) has been made available -- both helicity dependent…

hep-ph2025

Insights into Nucleon Resonances via Continuum Schwinger Function Methods

Peng Cheng, Langtian Liu, Ya Lu +1

The first baryon resonance was discovered in the early 1950s. The Roper resonance joined the collection ten years later. Today, many baryon resonances are known and more are being…

hep-ph2025

Symmetry-preserving calculation of pion light-front wave functions

Zhao-Qian Yao, Zhen-Ni Xu, Yu-Yang Xiao +2

Poincaré-covariant Bethe-Salpeter wave functions are used to calculate light-front wave functions (LFWFs) of the pion, , and an analogue state, . The current masses…

hep-ph2025

Light-Front Transverse Nucleon Charge and Magnetisation Densities

Z. -N. Xu, Z. -Q. Yao, P. Cheng +3

Nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors obtained using both the three-body and quark + fully-interacting-diquark pictures of nucleon structure are employed to calculate an arr…

hep-ph2025

Quark + Diquark Description of Nucleon Elastic Electromagnetic Form Factors

Peng Cheng, Zhao Qian Yao, Daniele Binosi +2

Working with a Poincaré-covariant quark + diquark, , Faddeev equation approach to nucleon structure, a refined symmetry preserving current for electron + nucleon elastic sca…

hep-ph2025

Distribution Functions of and Baryons

Yang Yu, Peng Cheng, Hui-Yu Xing +2

Treating baryons as quark + interacting-diquark bound states, a symmetry-preserving formulation of a vectorvector contact interaction (SCI) is used to deliver an extens…

hep-ph2025

Kaon and Pion Fragmentation Functions

Hui-Yu Xing, Wen-Hao Bian, Zhu-Fang Cui +1

The Drell-Levy-Yan relation is employed to obtain pion and kaon elementary fragmentation functions (EFFs) from the hadron-scale parton distribution functions (DFs) of these mesons.…

hep-ph2025

Pion, Kaon and nucleon gravitational form factors

Zhao-Qian Yao, Yin-Zhen Xu, Daniele Binosi +5

A unified set of predictions for pion, kaon and nucleon gravitational form factors is obtained using a symmetry-preserving truncation of each relevant quantum field equation. A cru…

hep-ph2025

Hadron Structure: Perspective and Insights

Daniele Binosi, Craig D. Roberts, Zhao-Qian Yao

The bulk of visible mass is supposed to emerge from nonperturbative dynamics within quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- the strong interaction sector of the Standard Model. Following y…

hep-ph2025

Distribution Functions of a Radially Excited Pion

Z. -N. Xu, Z. -Q. Yao, D. Binosi +3

A nonperturbatively-improved, symmetry-preserving approximation to the quantum field equations relevant in calculations of meson masses and interactions is used to deliver predicti…

hep-ph2024

Likelihood of a zero in the proton elastic electric form factor

Peng Cheng, Zhao-Qian Yao, Daniele Binosi +1

Working with the available data on the ratio of proton electric and magnetic form factors, , and independent of any model or theory of strong inter…

hep-ph2024

Kaon Distribution Functions from Empirical Information

Zhen-Ni Xu, Daniele Binosi, Chen Chen +3

Using available information from Drell-Yan data on pion and kaon structure functions, an approach is described which enables the development of pointwise profiles for all pion and…

hep-ph2024

Impressions of Parton Distribution Functions

Yang Yu, Craig D. Roberts

Parton distribution functions (DFs) have long been recognised as key measures of hadron structure. Today, theoretical prediction of such DFs is becoming possible using diverse meth…

hep-ph2024

Nucleon Gravitational Form Factors

Z. -Q. Yao, Y. -Z. Xu, D. Binosi +6

A symmetry-preserving analysis of strong interaction quantum field equations is used to complete a unified treatment of pion, kaon, nucleon electromagnetic and gravitational form f…

hep-ph2024

Pseudoscalar Mesons and Emergent Mass

K. Raya, A. Bashir, D. Binosi +2

Despite its role in the continuing evolution of the Universe, only a small fraction of the mass of visible material can be attributed to the Higgs boson alone. The overwhelmingly d…

hep-ph2024

Nucleon charge and magnetisation distributions: flavour separation and zeroes

Zhao-Qian Yao, Daniele Binosi, Zhu-Fang Cu +1

A symmetry-preserving truncation of the quantum field equations describing hadron properties is used to deliver parameter-free predictions for all nucleon elastic electromagnetic f…

hep-ph2023

Pion distribution functions from low-order Mellin moments

Ya Lu, Yin-Zhen Xu, Khépani Raya +2

Exploiting an evolution scheme for parton distribution functions (DFs) that is all-orders exact, contemporary lattice-QCD (lQCD) results for low-order Mellin moments of the pion va…

hep-ph2023

Developing predictions for pion fragmentation functions

H. -Y. Xing, Z. -Q. Yao, B. -L. Li +3

Exploiting crossing symmetry, the hadron scale pion valence quark distribution function is used to predict the kindred elementary valence quark fragmentation function (FF). This fu…

hep-ph2020★ 47 cited

Higgs modulation of emergent mass as revealed in kaon and pion parton distributions

Zhu-Fang Cui, Minghui Ding, Fei Gao +6

Strangeness was discovered roughly seventy years ago, lodged in a particle now known as the kaon, . Kindred to the pion, ; both states are massless in the absence of Higgs-bo…