New Approaches to Target Mass Corrections
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-05-27 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We analyze different prescriptions for the inclusion of target mass effects in the extraction of parton distributions from the measured structure functions. As a main result, the problem of defining parton distributions in the presence of mass is an open problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.5710,
title = {New Approaches to Target Mass Corrections},
author = {F. M. Steffens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5710},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages. Presented at HiX2010, Jlab, October 2010