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QCD Green functions in a gluon field
We formulate a dressed perturbative expansion of QCD, where the standard diagrams are evaluated in the presence of a constant external gluon field whose magnitude is gaussian distributed. The approach is Poincare and gauge invariant, and modifies the usual results for hard processes only by power suppressed contributions. Long distance propagation of quarks and gluons turns out to be inhibited due to a branch point singularity instead of a pole at p 2 = 0 in the quark and gluon propagators. The dressing keeps the (massless) quarks in q fluctuations of the photon at a finite distance from each other.
119448188
Structure functions are not Parton probabilities
Abstract Parton distributions given by deep inelastic lepton scattering (DIS) are not equal to the probabilities of finding those partons in the parent wave function. Soft rescattering of the struck parton within the coherence length of the hard process influences the DIS cross section and gives dynamical phases to the scattering amplitudes. This gives rise to diffractive DIS, shadowing in nuclear targets and transverse spin asymmetry.
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SUMMARY TALK ON QUARK-HADRON DUALITY
I ascribe the origin of Bloom-Gilman duality in DIS to a separation of scales between the hard subprocess and soft resonance formation. The success of duality indicates that the subprocesses of exclusive form factors are the same as in DIS. The observed dominance of the longitudinal structure function at large x in \pi N \to \mu^+\mu^- X can explain why local duality works for DIS with a pion target. The failure of duality in semi-exclusive processes indicates that high momentum transfer t is not sufficient to make the corresponding subprocesses compact.
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Semi-exclusive DVCS
We consider Semi-Exclusive Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, gamma* p \to gamma Y (SECS), where Y is an inclusive state of intermediate mass, \Lambda_QCD<<m_Y<<Q. When the photon is produced with a large transverse momentum k_T \sim m_Y the subprocess is hard and the struck quark fragments independently of the target spectators. Using completeness this allows to express the SECS cross section in terms of ordinary parton distributions. Apart from direct comparisons with data (yet to come) new information on Bloom-Gilman duality may be obtained through comparisons of resonance production via DVCS (gamma* p \to gamma N*) with the SECS scaling distribution in m_Y.
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Measuring Transverse Size with Virtual Photons
Fourier transforming the virtual photon transverse momentum in γ(q⊥) + N → f processes allows new insight into hadron dynamics as a function of impact parameter b. I discuss how previous analyses of charge density based on elastic and transition form factors (f = N,N∗) can be generalized to any multi-hadron final state (f = πN, ππN, D̄Λc, . . .). The b-distribution determines the transverse positions of the quarks that the photon couples to, and can be studied as a function of multiplicity, the relative transverse momenta, quark masses and polarization. The method requires no factorization nor leading twist approximation. Data with spacelike photon virtualities in the range 0 ≤ Q ≤ Qmax provides a resolution ∆b & 1/Qmax in impact parameter. ∗Talk at the Third International Workshop on Transverse Polarization Phenomena in Hard Scattering (Transversity 2011), in Veli Los̆inj, Croatia, 29 August 2 September 2011. ar X iv :1 11 0. 33 93 v1 [ he pph ] 1 5 O ct 2 01 1 1. Charge density from elastic form factors The quark density of a hadron in transverse (impact parameter) space b is given by a twodimensional Fourier transform of the electromagnetic form factor of the hadron [1, 2, 3, 4]. For a proton with helicity λ the density distribution is ρq/N (b) ≡ ∫ dq⊥ (2π)2 e−i q⊥·b 1 2P+ 〈P, 1 2q⊥, λ| j (0) |P+,−2q⊥, λ〉
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The intrinsic gluon component of the nucleon
Abstract Using an intrinsic parton model we estimate the rough shape and size of the intrinsic gluon component of the nucleon, corresponding to an energy scale Q of the order λ QCD . It is nearly as hard in shape as the valence quark, while its size accounts for a quarter of the nucleon momentum. Both are in qualitative agreement with the input leading twist gluon distribution assumed by Gluck, Reya and Vogt at this scale in order to reproduce the observed distributions at Q 2 ≳ 1 GeV 2 via perturbative QCD evolution.
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Semi-exclusive production of photons at HERA
Abstract. We study the feasibility of measuring the semi-exclusive photon production $\gamma + p \to \gamma + Y$ at HERA. The cross section of photons produced at large transverse momenta, recoiling off an inclusive system Y of limited mass, can without photon isolation cuts simply be expressed in terms of hard PQCD subprocesses and standard target parton distributions. With the help of event generators we identify the kinematic region where quark and gluon fragmentation processes can be neglected. The cross section in this semi-exclusive region is large enough to be measured with an upgraded HERA luminosity of ${\cal L} = 100 {\mathrm{pb}}^{-1}$. The subprocesses of lowest order in $\alpha_{\mathrm{s}}$ are suppressed at low recoil masses $M_Y$, compared to higher order gluon exchange, i.e. BFKL contributions. The distinct $M_Y$-dependence makes it possible to determine experimentally the kinematic range where the higher order processes dominate.
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Nuclear Effects in Charm Production
I briefly review our understanding of the nuclear target dependence of charm and charmonium production, in view of charm physics at Elfe.
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The Intrinsic Charm of the Proton
Recent data give unexpectedly large cross-sections for charmed particle production at high xF in hadron collisions. This may imply that the proton has a non-negligible uudcc Fock component. The interesting consequences of such a hypothesis are explored.
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Mesons and baryons from QCD
Abstract We study a gauge covariant method for quark bound states in 3 + 1 dimensions, based on a stationary phase approximation of the gluon path integral. Assuming thet lim | x |→∞ F μν a ( x ) F a μν ( x ) ≠ 0 we find meson (q q ) and baryon (qqq) states bound by a Coulomb + linear potential. The quark wave function is confined, as in the bag model. The high-spin states lie on asymptotically linear Regge trajectories of universal slope.