Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 106
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12292-7

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Deuteron transverse densities in holographic QCD

¹ Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000, Lanzhou, China
² Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, India

^* e-mail: mondal@impcas.ac.cn

Received: 15 February 2017
Accepted: 21 April 2017
Published online: 24 May 2017

Abstract

We investigate the transverse charge density in the longitudinally as well as transversely polarized deuteron using the recent empirical description of the deuteron electromagnetic form factors in the framework of holographic QCD. The predictions of the holographic QCD are compared with the results of a standard phenomenological parameterization. In addition, we evaluate GPDs and the gravitational form factors for the deuteron. The longitudinal momentum densities are also investigated in the transverse plane.