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THE PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS IN NUCLEONS: A QUARK MODEL ANALYSIS

Marco TrainiVicente VentoAndrea Zambarda

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PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyQuark modelGeneral Physics and AstronomyAstronomy and AstrophysicsPartonRenormalization groupWave functionNucleonHigh momentumGluon

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We use a laboratory frame description based on quark model wave functions to study the parton distributions in the nucleon. The present approach incorporates two major improvements, namely, it has the correct support and the renormalization group evolution is carried out to next-to-leading order. We obtain initially the parton distributions arising from the Isgur-Karl wave function. The failure of the latter to reproduce, even approximately, the data motivates us to analyze different scenarios, i.e. additional high momentum components and nonvanishing gluon distributions at the initial scale. We conclude that in order to understand data at various scales complex models simultaneously, it is necessary to include high momentum components and/or valence gluons.

https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732395001356