Analyses of decay constants and light-cone distribution amplitudes for<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:math>-wave heavy meson

Abstract

In this paper, a study of light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for $s$-wave heavy meson are presented in both general and heavy quark frameworks. Within the light-front approach, the leading twist light-cone distribution amplitudes, ${\ensuremath{\phi}}_{M}(u)$, and their relevant decay constants of heavy pseudoscalar and vector mesons, ${f}_{M}$, have simple relations. These relations can be further simplified when the heavy quark limit is taken into consideration. After fixing the parameters that appear in both Gaussian and power-law wave functions, the corresponding decay constants are calculated and compared with those of other theoretical approaches. The curves and the first six $\ensuremath{\xi}$-moments of ${\ensuremath{\phi}}_{M}(u)$ are plotted and estimated. A conclusion is drawn from these results: Even though the values of the decay constants of the distinct mesons are almost equal, the curves of their LCDAs may have quite large differences, and vice versa. Additionally, in the heavy quark limit, the leading twist LCDAs, ${\ensuremath{\Phi}}_{Qq}(\ensuremath{\omega})$ and ${\ensuremath{\Phi}}_{Qq}(\ensuremath{\omega})$, are compared with the $B$-meson LCDAs, ${\ensuremath{\psi}}_{+}(\ensuremath{\omega})$, suggested by the other theoretical groups.