Structure Functions are not Parton Probabilities
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Parton distributions given by deep inelastic lepton scattering (DIS) are not equal to the probabilities of finding those partons in the parent wave function. Soft rescattering of the struck parton within the coherence length of the hard process influences the DIS cross section and gives dynamical phases to the scattering amplitudes. This gives rise to diffractive DIS, shadowing in nuclear targets and transverse spin asymmetry.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209317,
title = {Structure Functions are not Parton Probabilities},
author = {Paul Hoyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209317},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Talk at ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam (July 2002). 3 pages, 1 figure