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Hard Diffraction in QCD

Conference ·
OSTI ID:881153
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.
Research Organization:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
881153
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-11306
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English