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Symmetry breaking and quark-hadron duality in structure functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We identify conditions under which a summation over nucleon resonances can yield, via quark-hadron duality, parton model results for electromagnetic and neutrino structure functions at large x. While a summation over the lowest even and odd parity multiplets is sufficient to achieve duality in the symmetric quark model, a suppression of transitions to specific final states is required for more realistic cases incorporating SU(6) breaking. We outline several scenarios consistent with duality, discuss their implications for the high Q^2 behavior of transition form factors, and illustrate how they can expose the patterns in the flavor-spin dependence of inter-quark forces.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0302013,
  title  = {Symmetry breaking and quark-hadron duality in structure functions},
  author = {F. E. Close and W. Melnitchouk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0302013},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

30 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. C

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