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Fracture functions in the very forward limit

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

This talk gives a brief discussion of extended fracture functions, which parametrise the non-perturbative physics in the target fragmentation region of semi-inclusive DIS. In the forward limit z -> 1, it can be seen that fracture functions can be identified with insertions of composite operators. This enables polarised fracture functions to be used to test a target-independence hypothesis of the ``proton spin effect''.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9907546,
  title  = {Fracture functions in the very forward limit},
  author = {B. E. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9907546},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX 2e; talk at QCD99 Montpellier

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