1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
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Pion Distribution Amplitudes from Functional QCD

3 Sept 2026, 09:40
20m
Gallery Room 2 (Bramber House)

Gallery Room 2

Bramber House

Speaker

Chuang Huang (Heidelberg University, ITP)

Description

We present the first functional QCD calculation of the pion distribution amplitude (DA) using the large-momentum effective theory in the functional renormalization group (fRG) framework. With only the strong coupling and current quark masses as input, we compute the quasi-DA from first-principles QCD correlation functions. By pushing the pion momentum up to $P_z = 4.5\ \mathrm{GeV}$, the quasi-DA becomes fully saturated, rendering the extrapolation uncertainty to the light-cone limit negligible. The resulting second moment $\langle \xi^2 \rangle_\pi = 0.267$ is significantly smaller than existing lattice-LaMET determinations and lies in a range consistent with other nonperturbative approaches.

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics, University Heidelberg
Career status Postdoc

Authors

Chuang Huang (Heidelberg University, ITP) Jan M. Pawlowski Lei Chang (Nankai University) Prof. Wei-jie Fu (Dalian University of Technology) Dr Yang-yang Tan (University of Tokyo)

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