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Nucleon quark distributions in a covariant quark-diquark model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-17 v1

Abstract

Spin-dependent and spin-independent quark light-cone momentum distributions and structure functions are calculated for the nucleon. We utilize a modified Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in which confinement is simulated by eliminating unphysical thresholds for nucleon decay into quarks. The nucleon bound state is obtained by solving the Faddeev equation in the quark-diquark approximation, where both scalar and axial-vector diquark channels are included. We find excellent agreement between our model results and empirical data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0504229,
  title  = {Nucleon quark distributions in a covariant quark-diquark model},
  author = {I. C. Cloet and W. Bentz and A. W. Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0504229},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, 7 figures