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Proton Structure and Parton Distribution Function
I recently read a question about whether photons, electrons, neutrinos... are a part of the proton since there are these sea-quarks he learned about. And the answers were confusing to me because the ...
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Transverse momentum in the parton model
Why is it so important that the partons in the parton model have low transverse momenta? And transverse to what anyway? I mean, basically one looks to justify breaking the hadronic subgraph in hadron-...
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Towards a matrix element definition of PDF
In Schwartz's book, 'Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model' P.$696$, he starts to derive an expression for a parton distribution function in terms of matrix elements evaluated on the lightcone. ...
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