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We present the complete NLO QCD analysis of the photon structure functions $F_2^\gamma(x,Q^2)$ and $F_L^\gamma(x,Q^2)$ for a real photon target. In particular we study the heavy flavor content of the structure functions which is due to two…
We discuss the possible target mass corrections in the QCD analysis of nucleon's spin-dependent structure functions measured in the polarized deep-inelastic leptoproduction. The target mass correction for the QCD Bjorken sum rule is…
We investigate the target mass effects in QCD Bjorken sum rule. The magnitude of the target mass correction is estimated in a variety of methods employing positivity bound as well as the experimental data for the asymmetry parameters. It…
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…
We investigate the one-gluon-exchange ($\alpha \alpha_s$) corrections to the polarized real photon structure function $g_1^\gamma(x,Q^2)$ in the massive parton model. We employ a technique based on the Cutkosky rules and the reduction of…
We present the next-to-next-to-leading order ($alpha alpha_s^2$) corrections to the first moment of the polarized virtual photon structure function $g_1^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ in the kinematical region $Lambda^2 ll P^2 ll Q^2$, where…
The nucleon mass corrections are calculated to all polarized structure functions for neutral and charged current deep inelastic scattering in lowest order in the coupling constant. The impact of the target mass corrections on the general…
We propose a new implementation of target mass corrections to nucleon structure functions which, unlike existing treatments, has the correct kinematic threshold behavior at finite Q^2 in the x -> 1 limit. We illustrate the differences…
We investigated top quark effects on virtual photon structure functions by pQCD. We include the top quark mass effects on the virtual photon structure function with the quark parton model and with the operator product expansion up to the…
Spin dependent structure function $g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2)$ of the polarised photon is analysed within the formalism based upon the unintegrated spin dependent parton distributions incorporating the LO Altarelli-Parisi evolution and the double…
We review the theory of polarized structure functions measured in deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering, focusing on the most recent developments. We concentrate on the structure function $g_1$, emphasizing the phenomenological problems…
We describe the twist-2 contributions to inclusive unpolarized and polarized deep-inelastic diffractive scattering in an operator approach. The representation refers to the observed large rapidity gap but does not require reference to a…
We calculate the effects of the target mass on deep-inelastic electron scattering on targets of spin one such as the deuteron, focusing on the novel structure functions that enter. It is important to understand these effects given the…
We investigate shadowing corrections to the polarized deuteron structure functions g_1^d and b_1. In the kinematic domain of current fixed target experiments we observe that shadowing effects in g_1^d are approximately twice as large as for…
Quark mass effects are clarified in the parton model approach to the transversely polarized nucleon structure function. The special propagator technique is employed to obtain manifestly gauge invariant results and extract the buried…
The sum rule for the first moment of the polarised (virtual) photon structure function $g_1^\gamma(x,Q^2;K^2)$ is revisited in the light of proposals for future $e^+ e^-$ colliders. The sum rule exhibits an array of phenomena characteristic…
Recent measurements of unpolarised and polarised nucleon structure functions and F_2(gamma) are reviewed. The implications for QCD and the gluon momentum distribution are discussed. The status of the understanding of the total…
We examine the QCD corrections to the structure functions $F_2^\gamma(x,Q^2)$ and $F_L^\gamma(x,Q^2)$ for a real photon target. The pointlike photon contributions from light and heavy quarks are computed through $O(\alpha\alpha_S)$. A…
In order to examine the validity of Wandzura-Wilczek relation for the polarized DIS structure function $g_2(x,Q^2)$, we use the light-front time-ordering pQCD to calculate $g_2(x,Q^2)$ at order $\alpha_s$ on a quark target. We find that the…
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…