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Parton-Hadron Duality in Unpolarised and Polarised Structure Functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We study the phenomenon of parton-hadron duality in both polarised and unpolarised electron proton scattering using the HERMES and the Jefferson Lab data, respectively. In both cases we extend a systematic perturbative QCD based analysis to the integrals of the structure functions in the resonance region. After subtracting target mass corrections and large x resummation effects, we extract the remaining power corrections up to order 1/Q^2. We find a sizeable suppression of these terms with respect to analyses using deep inelastic scattering data. The suppression appears consistently in both polarised and unpolarised data, except for the low Q^2 polarised data, where a large negative higher twist contribution remains. Possible scenarios generating this behavior are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0308057,
  title  = {Parton-Hadron Duality in Unpolarised and Polarised Structure Functions},
  author = {N. Bianchi and A. Fantoni and S. Liuti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0308057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 9 figures