PARTONS: PARtonic Tomography Of Nucleon Software. A computing framework for the phenomenology of Generalized Parton Distributions
Abstract
We describe the architecture and functionalities of a C++ software framework, coined PARTONS, dedicated to the phenomenology of Generalized Parton Distributions. These distributions describe the three-dimensional structure of hadrons in terms of quarks and gluons, and can be accessed in deeply exclusive lepto- or photo-production of mesons or photons. PARTONS provides a necessary bridge between models of Generalized Parton Distributions and experimental data collected in various exclusive production channels. We outline the specification of the PARTONS framework in terms of practical needs, physical content and numerical capacity. This framework will be useful for physicists - theorists or experimentalists - not only to develop new models, but also to interpret existing measurements and even design new experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1512.06174,
title = {PARTONS: PARtonic Tomography Of Nucleon Software. A computing framework for the phenomenology of Generalized Parton Distributions},
author = {B. Berthou and D. Binosi and N. Chouika and L. Colaneri and M. Guidal and C. Mezrag and H. Moutarde and J. Rodríguez-Quintero and F. Sabatié and P. Sznajder and J. Wagner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06174},
year = {2018}
}
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20 pages, 9 figures, use Tikz