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Hard Diffraction in QCD

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2122090· OSTI ID:20726494
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  1. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94309 (United States)

Gluon exchange between the outgoing quarks and the target spectators affects the structure functions measured in deep inelastic scattering in a profound way, leading to diffractive lepto-production processes, the shadowing and antishadowing of nuclear structure functions, and target spin asymmetries -- leading-twist physics not incorporated in the light-front wavefunctions of the target computed in isolation. I also discuss the diffraction dissociation of hadrons into jets as a tool for resolving fundamental hadron substructure.

OSTI ID:
20726494
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 792; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English