Fixed-target charmonium production and pion PDFs

by Wen-Chen Chang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

Monday 20 Mar 2023, 13:30 → 15:00 Asia/Tokyo

=Date and Place=

Mar. 20th (Mon) 2023  , 13:30~

via Seminar Room 224, 2F Main Research Bldg.

=Lecturer=

Prof. Wen-Chen Chang

(Institute of physics, Academia Sinica)

=Title=

Fixed-target charmonium production and pion PDFs

=Abstract=

The pion, as the Goldstone boson of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking of the strong interaction, is the lightest QCD bound state. Because of its light mass, pion plays a dominant role in the long-range nucleon-nucleon interaction. Understanding the pion's internal structure is important to investigate the low-energy, non-perturbative aspects of QCD. Nevertheless, the uncertainties of partonic density functions (PDFs) of pionsare relatively huge due to lacking rest pion targets.
In this talk, we will review recent theoretical and experimental progress of extracting the pion PDFs. Furthermore, we will provide quantitative evidence within the CEM and NRQCD frameworks that the existing pion-induced fixed-target J/psi and psi (2S) data are sensitive to the gluon density of pions, and favor the pion PDFs with relatively large gluon contents at large x.
References
[1] W.C. Chang, J.C. Peng, S. Platchkov, and T. Sawada, Phys. Rev. D 102, 054024 (2020); arXiv:2006.06947.
[2] C.Y. Hsieh, Y.S. Lian, W.C. Chang, J.C. Peng, S. Platchkov, and T. Sawada, Chin. J. Phys. 73, 13 (2021); arXiv:2103.11660.
[3] W.C. Chang, J.C. Peng, S. Platchkov, and T. Sawada, arXiv: 2209.04072 (PRD accepted).

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