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Interactions of virtual photons are analyzed in terms of their parton distribution functions. It is shown that the concept of parton distribution functions is phenomenologically very useful even for highly virtual photonds involved in hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jiri Chyla , Marek Tasevsky

The light-front representation of quantum chromodynamics provides a frame-independent, quantum-mechanical representation of hadrons at the amplitude level, capable of encoding their multi-quark, hidden-color and gluon momentum, helicity,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

We obtain the masses, the electromagnetic properties, and the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of $\Lambda$, $\Lambda_c$, and their isospin triplet baryons, i.e, $\Sigma^0$, $\Sigma^+$, $\Sigma^-$ and $\Sigma_c^0$, $\Sigma_c^+$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Tiancai Peng , Zhimin Zhu , Siqi Xu , Xiang Liu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) have emerged over the 1990s as a powerful concept and tool to study nucleon structure. They provide nucleon tomography from the correlation between transverse position and longitudinal momentum of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shengying Zhao , Eric Voutier

We present a first calculation of the generalized parton distributions of the photon(both polarized and unpolarized) using overlaps of light-front wave functions at leading order in \alpha and zeroth order in \alpha_s; for non-zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Mukherjee , S. Nair

Classically, electromagnetic pulses are described by real fields that couple to charged matter and propagate causally. We will show here that real fields of the form used in standard classical electromagnetic theory have a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Margaret Hawton

The light front densities of momentum, angular momentum, and intrinsic pressure are calculated for the photon, both in the free case and at leading order in quantum electrodynamics. In the latter case, we moreover decompose the form factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Adam Freese , Wim Cosyn

In this work, real photon production scattering kernels from jet-medium interactions in the QCD medium are perturbatively calculated using the higher-twist (HT) formalism. Focus is given towards real photon production from a highly virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Amit Kumar , Gojko Vujanovic

In the framework of the QCD parton model, we study unpolarized scattering of high energy real photons from a proton target into lepton pairs and a system of hadrons. For a given parametrization of parton distributions in the proton, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Ales Psaker

This paper explores the distinction between virtual and real photons in the context of the Davies quantum relativistic extension of the Wheeler-Feynman classical electromagnetic theory. An alternative way of understanding this distinction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 R. E. Kastner

We investigate the heavy quark mass effects on the parton distribution functions in the unpolarized virtual photon up to the next-to-leading order in QCD. Our formalism is based on the QCD-improved parton model described by the DGLAP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yoshio Kitadono , Ken Sasaki , Takahiro Ueda , Tsuneo Uematsu

Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) enter QCD factorization theorems for hard exclusive reactions. They encode rich information about hadron partonic structure. We explore a possibility to constrain GPDs in experiments at LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-20 D. Yu. Ivanov , B. Pire , L. Szymanowski , J. Wagner

We study the three positivity constraints among the eight virtual photon structure functions, derived from the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and which are hence model-independent. The photon structure functions obtained from the simple parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ken Sasaki , Jacques Soffer , Tsuneo Uematsu

We investigate the spin structure of the virtual photon beyond the leading order in QCD. The first moment of the virtual photon spin structure function $g_1^\gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ with QCD effects turns out to be non-vanishing in contrast to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Sasaki , Tsuneo Uematsu

Gravitational form factors (GFFs) of hadrons encode essential information about the internal distributions of mass, spin, pressure, and shear among their quark and gluon constituents. We compute the quark and gluon GFFs of the proton using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We point out that in processes involving the parton content of the photon the usual effective photon approximation should be modified. The reason is that the parton content of virtual photons is logarithmically suppressed compared to real…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Manuel Drees , Rohini M. Godbole

The manifestations of QCD effects on quark and gluon distribution functions of longitudinally polarized virtual photons involved in hard collisions are investigated. It is shown that for moderate photon virtualities and in the kinematical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Jiri Chyla , Marek Tasevsky

We have investigated the unpolarized valence quark generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) and parton distribution functions (PDFs) for heavy spin-$0$, $B$- and $D$-mesons in the light-front quark model (LFQM). PDFs have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Satyajit Puhan , Harleen Dahiya

In the computation of short-distance cross sections initiated by electrons and photons one can adopt the so-called structure-function approach, in which these particles play formally the same roles as hadrons do in QCD factorisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Stefano Frixione

Within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework, we systematically investigate the subleading-twist (twist-3) generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the proton's valence quarks beyond the Wandzura--Wilczek (WW) approximation. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Ziqi Zhang , Chandan Mondal , Siqi Xu , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary