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We review the perturbative evolution of the polarized structure functions g_1 and their associated parton distribution functions, with particular emphasis on the anomalous coupling of the first moment of the polarized gluon distribution. We…
A brief overview of various problems related to the description of a polarized proton in quark models is presented. Structure functions are discussed both for longitudinal and transverse polarization. A recently introduced quantity,…
We present the final results for the deuteron spin structure functions obtained from the full data set collected with Jefferson Lab's CLAS in 2000-2001. Polarized electrons with energies of 1.6, 2.5, 4.2 and 5.8 GeV were scattered from…
The photon structure function is a useful testing ground for QCD. It is perturbatively computable apart from a contribution from what is usually called the hadronic component of the photon. There have been many proposals for this…
Estimates for longitudinal spin asymmetries which single out new polarized nucleon structure functions in deeply inelastic charged current interactions at HERA energies are given, exploiting their interpretation in terms of polarized quark…
We describe the determination of the DIS structure functions $F_{2}$ and $F_{L}$ by using the singlet Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) and Altarelli-Martinelli equations at small values of $x$. The determination of the…
We summarize the results of a recent global analysis of proton and deuteron F2 structure function world data performed over a large range of kinematics, including recent measurements done at JLab with the CLAS detector. From these data the…
We summarize the pertinent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of pion photo- and electroproduction in the threshold region. We discuss which experiments and which calculations should be done/performed in the future.
In this thesis the polarized and unpolarized photon distributions of the nucleon (proton, neutron) $(\Delta)\gamma^N$, evaluated in the equivalent photon approximation (EPA), are computed theoretically and the possibility of their…
We introduce and study functorial and combinatorial constructions concerning equivariant Burnside groups.
We analyse the available data on the polarized asymmetries $A_1$ for proton, neutron and deuteron targets. We use a homogeneous and updated set of unpolarized structure functions to derive $g_1$ from $A_1$, and we accurately correct for the…
The field of fragmentation functions of light quarks and gluons is reviewed. In addition to integrated fragmentation functions, attention is paid to the dependence of fragmentation functions on transverse momenta and on polarization degrees…
We start from an MIT-bag model calculation which provides information about the constituent quark distributions in the nucleon. The constituent quarks, however, are themselves considered as complex objects whose partonic substructure is…
Photoproduction of jets at HERA provides information on the partonic structure of the photon. We report on the latest dijet photoproduction results, for real photons and for photons at low virtualities, measured with the ZEUS detector.
Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…
QCD-inspired phenomenological analysis of experimental moments of proton and deuteron structure functions F2 have been presented. The obtained results on the d/u ratio at large-x, isospin dependence of higher twists and comparison with…
The implications of the positivity constraint on the presently unknown polarized structure function of the photon, $g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2)$, are studied in detail. In particular the non-trivial consequences of this constraint,…
The unpolarized virtual photon structure functions $F_2^\gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ and $F_L^\gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ are investigated in perturbative QCD for the kinematical region $\Lambda^2 \ll P^2 \ll Q^2$, where $-Q^2(-P^2)$ is the mass squared of…
We summarise the talks presented in the working group on diffraction and vector mesons at the DIS 2009 workshop.
We report progress on nuclear structure functions, especially on their nuclear modifications and a new tensor structure function for the deuteron. To understand nuclear structure functions is an important step toward describing nuclei and…