Pion and kaon structure functions at an electron-ion collider
Abstract
Pions and kaons are, along with protons and neutrons, the main building blocks of nuclear matter. They are connected to the Goldstone modes of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, the mechanism thought to generate all hadron mass in the visible universe. The distribution of the fundamental constituents, the quarks and gluons, is expected to be different in pions, kaons, and nucleons. However, experimental data are sparse. As a result, there has been persistent doubt about the behaviour of the pion's valence quark structure function at large Bjorken-$$x$$ and virtually nothing is known about the contribution of gluons. The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with an acceptance optimized for forward physics could provide access to structure functions over a larger kinematic region. This would allow for measurements testing if the origin of mass is encoded in the differences of gluons in pions, kaons, and nucleons, and measurements that could serve as a test of assumptions used in the extraction of structure functions and the pion and kaon form factors. Furthermore, measurements at an EIC would also allow to explore the effect of gluons at high x.
- Authors:
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- Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C. (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1462498
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-18-2628; DOE/OR/23177-4506
Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: US1902185
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 1970; Conference: JPOS17, Newport News, VA (United States), 12-15 Sep 2017; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
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Horn, Tanja. Pion and kaon structure functions at an electron-ion collider. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5040208.
Horn, Tanja. Pion and kaon structure functions at an electron-ion collider. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5040208
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"Pion and kaon structure functions at an electron-ion collider". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5040208. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1462498.
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abstractNote = {Pions and kaons are, along with protons and neutrons, the main building blocks of nuclear matter. They are connected to the Goldstone modes of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, the mechanism thought to generate all hadron mass in the visible universe. The distribution of the fundamental constituents, the quarks and gluons, is expected to be different in pions, kaons, and nucleons. However, experimental data are sparse. As a result, there has been persistent doubt about the behaviour of the pion's valence quark structure function at large Bjorken-$x$ and virtually nothing is known about the contribution of gluons. The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with an acceptance optimized for forward physics could provide access to structure functions over a larger kinematic region. This would allow for measurements testing if the origin of mass is encoded in the differences of gluons in pions, kaons, and nucleons, and measurements that could serve as a test of assumptions used in the extraction of structure functions and the pion and kaon form factors. Furthermore, measurements at an EIC would also allow to explore the effect of gluons at high x.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5040208},
journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
number = ,
volume = 1970,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
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