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arxiv: 1102.2448 · v1 · submitted 2011-02-11 · ⚛️ nucl-th · hep-ex· hep-lat· hep-ph· nucl-ex

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Pion and kaon valence-quark parton distribution functions

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keywords distributiondatafunctionspiondrell-yanexistingkaonparton
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A rainbow-ladder truncation of QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations, constrained by existing applications to hadron physics, is employed to compute the valence-quark parton distribution functions of the pion and kaon. Comparison is made to pi-N Drell-Yan data for the pion's u-quark distribution and to Drell-Yan data for the ratio u_K(x)/u_\pi(x): the environmental influence of this quantity is a parameter-free prediction, which agrees well with existing data. Our analysis unifies the computation of distribution functions with that of numerous other properties of pseudoscalar mesons.

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