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Title: Onset of Quark-Hadron Duality in Pion Electroproduction

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan (Armenia)
  2. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180 (United States)
  3. North Carolina A and T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina 27411 (United States)
  4. Bucharest University, Bucharest (Romania)
  5. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)

A large data set of charged-pion ({pi}{sup {+-}}) electroproduction from both hydrogen and deuterium targets has been obtained spanning the low-energy residual-mass region. These data conclusively show the onset of the quark-hadron duality phenomenon, as predicted for high-energy hadron electroproduction. We construct several ratios from these data to exhibit the relation of this phenomenon to the high-energy factorization ansatz of electron-quark scattering and subsequent quark{yields}pion production mechanisms.

OSTI ID:
20861592
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 98, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.022001; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English