Revisiting the Twist-3 Distribution Amplitudes of K Meson Within the QCD Background Field Approach

In the present paper, we investigate the kaon twist-3 distribution amplitudes (DAs) φ_p,σ^K within the QCD background field approach. The SU_f(3)-breaking effects are studied in detail under a systematical way, especially the sum rules for the moments of φ_p,σ^K are obtained by keeping all the mass terms in the s-quark propagator consistently. After adding all the uncertainties in quadrature, the first two Gegenbauler moments of φ_p,σ^K are a_K,p¹ (1 GeV) = -0.376_-0.148^+0.103, a_K,p²(1 GeV) = 0.701_-0.491^+0.481, a_K,σ¹ (1 GeV) = -0.160_-0.074^+0.051, and a_K,σ²(1 GeV) = 0.369_-0.149^+0.163, respectively. Their normalization parameters μ_K^p|1 m GeV = 1.188_-0.043^+0.039 GeV and μ_K^σ|1 m GeV = 1.021_-0.055^+0.036 GeV. A detailed discussion on the properties of φ_p,σ^K moments shows that the higher-order s-quark mass terms can indeed provide sizable contributions. Furthermore, based on the newly obtained moments, a model for the kaon twist-3 wavefunction Ψ_p,σ^K(x,k⊥) with a better end-point behavior is constructed, which shall be useful for perturbative QCD calculations. As a byproduct, we make a discussion on the properties of the pion twist-3 DAs.