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Quark charges - parton-distribution function - factor 5/18
I got the following from Thomson’s Modern Particle Physics and some other sources.
The factor 5/18 distinguishing electron-DIS and neutrino scattering experiments is a basic proof for quarks and their ...
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Parton Distribution Functions - Antiquarks?
In all the PDF plots that I have seen so far (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5452 Fig. $3$ and $4$) the PDFs for sea or charm quarks contained only the strange or charm quark, but not the $\bar{s}$ ...
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What are extrinsic and intrinsic flavour production?
In terms of Feynman diagrams, what are extrinsic and intrinsic flavour production?
See for example this paper this paper (p.2).
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Why are sea quarks dominant only at low value of the Bjorken $x$ variable?
In electron proton deep inelastic scatterings, the sea quarks or gluon PDFs are only dominant at low value of $x$. Thomson explained this in his book Modern Particle Physics (see page 194) by arguing
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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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What are direct experimental evidences that quarks exist? [duplicate]
Now we have very established model of quarks explaining fundamental strong interaction. What are experimental proofs for existence of quarks and what is the name of physicist which made them?
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