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Duality in Semi-Exclusive Processes
Semi-exclusive processes like \gamma p \to \pi^+ Y are closely analogous to DIS, ep \to eX, in the limit where the momentum transfer |t| to the pion and the mass of the inclusive system Y are large but still much smaller than the total CM energy. We apply Bloom-Gilman duality to this semi-exclusive process. The energy dependence of the \gamma p \to \pi^+ n cross section given by semi-local duality agrees with data for moderate values of |t|, but its normalization is underestimated by about two orders of magnitude. This indicates that rather high momentum transfers are required for the validity of PQCD in the hard subprocess \gamma u \to \pi^+ d. In the case of Compton scattering \gamma p \to \gamma p the analogous discrepancy is about one order of magnitude. In electroproduction the virtuality of the incoming photon can be used to directly measure the hardness of the subprocess.
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NEW DUALITY CONSTRAINTS ON MESON AMPLITUDES
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Systematics of charm production in hadronic collisions
Charmed particles produced in hadron collisions have a harder momentum spectrum than predicted by QCD at leading twist. This and related features of the data can be understood as resulting from coalescence of the charm quark with co‐moving light quarks, and a contribution of intrinsic charm at large values of xF.
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Sister trajectories in the dual resonance model
Abstract The existence of a Regge tranjectory γ = α /3 − 1 in the eight-point amplitude of the Dual Resonance Model set of demonstrated. It is suggested that the three presently known trajectories α, β and γ are part of an infinite set of “sister” trajectories, the expected properties of which are discussed.
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Mass limits on particles from pulsed sources: How reliable are they?
It is widely believed that the arrival at Earth of pulsed emission from a cosmic accelerator such as Cygnus X-3 puts mass limits on the particles carrying the radiation of order 1 GeV. We show that these simple kinematic estimates are unreliable and can often be avoided. The actual mass limit depends critically on the detailed structure of the pulse, i.e., on (i) the shape of the flux as a function of energy and (ii) the minimum and maximum energies. We illustrate this by showing that masses of 100 GeV or more for the ''cygnets'' responsible for the unexplained pulsed muon signal from Cygnus X-3 can be made consistent with present experiments. These masses are large enough to accommodate the 3/sup 0/ angular spread of the muon pulses and to exclude the production of cygnets in accelerator experiments.
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Structure Functions Are Not Parton Probabilities
The common view that structure functions measured in deep inelastic lepton scattering are determined by the probability distribution of quarks and gluons in the target is not correct. We show that the leading-twist cross section is affected by the rescattering of the struck quark in the target. This is consistent with the Glauber-Gribov interpretation of shadowing as a rescattering effect.
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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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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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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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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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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.