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Quark-hadron duality and truncated moments of nucleon structure functions

Nuclear Theory 2010-03-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We employ a novel new approach to study local quark-hadron duality using "truncated" moments, or integrals of structure functions over restricted regions of x, to determine the degree to which individual resonance regions are dominated by leading twist. Because truncated moments obey the same Q^2 evolution equations as the leading twist parton distributions, this approach makes possible for the first time a description of resonance region data and the phenomenon of quark-hadron duality directly from QCD.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2055,
  title  = {Quark-hadron duality and truncated moments of nucleon structure functions},
  author = {A. Psaker and W. Melnitchouk and M. E. Christy and C. Keppel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2055},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

21 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. C

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