Valence quark distribution of light <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>ρ</mml:mi></mml:math> and heavy <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>J</mml:mi><mml:mo>

In this work, we have investigated the valence quark structure through chiral-even vector quark generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of light <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mi>ρ</a:mi></a:math> and heavy <c:math xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><c:mi>J</c:mi><c:mo>/</c:mo><c:mi>ψ</c:mi></c:math> vector mesons using the light-cone quark model. By solving the quark-quark correlator, we have represented the quark GPDs in the light-front wave function (LFWFs) form. The charge, magnetic, and quadrupole form factors of these particles have been derived from the vector quark GPDs and compared with available theoretical predictions and lattice simulation data. The structure functions corresponding to the Rosenbluth scattering cross section of these mesons have also been calculated and compared with available NJL model predictions. All the results of our calculations are found to follow a similar trend to other model results. We have also calculated the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of these particles in the forward limit of GPDs. The calculated PDFs have also been evolved to <e:math xmlns:e="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><e:mrow><e:mn>5</e:mn><e:mtext> </e:mtext><e:mtext> </e:mtext><e:msup><e:mrow><e:mi>GeV</e:mi></e:mrow><e:mrow><e:mn>2</e:mn></e:mrow></e:msup></e:mrow></e:math> through next to next to leading order Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) evolutions.