Hybrid hadrons at rest and on the light front
We present a unified description of heavy hybrid hadrons based on a constituent-gluon picture embedded in the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) framework. In this approach, the gluonic excitation is treated as a dynamical quasiparticle with a mass generated by instanton-induced interactions. We propose a simple variational derivation of the BO potentials. The main focus of the paper is the derivation of light-front wave functions for hybrid systems, specifically for the $ccg$ and $qqqg$ cases. We employ both variational methods and numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation in momentum representation. Using the resulting wave functions, we compute the gluon PDFs for these systems.
Authors
- Edward Shuryak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9343-8671)
- Ismail Zahed
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2026-11-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/v7td-my9v
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Office of Science