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The Parton Model and its Applications
This is a review of the program we started in 1968 to understand and
generalize Bjorken scaling and Feynman's parton model in a canonical quantum
field theory. It is shown that the parton model proposed for deep inelastic
electron scatterings can be derived if a transverse momentum cutoff is imposed
on all particles in the theory so that the impulse approximation holds. The
deep inelastic electron-positron annihilation into a nucleon plus anything else
is related by the crossing symmetry of quantum field theory to the deep
inelastic electron-nucleon scattering. We have investigated the implication of
crossing symmetry and found that the structure functions satisfy a scaling
behavior analogous to the Bjorken limit for deep inelastic electron scattering.
We then find that massive lepton pair production in collisions of two high
energy hadrons can be treated by the parton model with an interesting scaling
behavior for the differential cross sections. This turns out to be the first
example of a class of hard processes involving two initial hadrons.Comment: Contribution to a book to be published by World Scientific for the
occasion of 50 Years of Quarks. 17 pages, 4 figure
Tunable temperature induced magnetization jump in a GdVO3 single crystal
We report a novel feature of the temperature induced magnetization jump
observed along the a-axis of the GdVO3 single crystal at temperature TM = 0.8
K. Below TM, the compound shows no coercivity and remanent magnetization
indicating a homogenous antiferromagnetic structure. However, we will
demonstrate that the magnetic state below TM is indeed history dependent and it
shows up in different jumps in the magnetization only when warming the sample
through TM. Such a magnetic memory effect is highly unusual and suggesting
different domain arrangements in the supposedly homogenous antiferromagnetic
phase of the compound.Comment: 17 pages, 8 Figure
Heavy Quark Mass Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering and Global QCD Analysis
A new implementation of the general PQCD formalism of Collins, including
heavy quark mass effects, is described. Important features that contribute to
the accuracy and efficiency of the calculation of both neutral current (NC) and
charged current (CC) processess are explicitly discussed. This new
implementation is applied to the global analysis of the full HERA I data sets
on NC and CC cross sections, with correlated systematic errors, in conjunction
with the usual fixed-target and hadron collider data sets. By using a variety
of parametrizations to explore the parton parameter space, robust new parton
distribution function (PDF) sets (CTEQ6.5) are obtained. The new quark
distributions are consistently higher in the region x ~ 10^{-3} than previous
ones, with important implications on hadron collider phenomenology, especially
at the LHC. The uncertainties of the parton distributions are reassessed and
are compared to the previous ones. A new set of CTEQ6.5 eigenvector PDFs that
encapsulates these uncertainties is also presented.Comment: 32 pages, 12 figures; updated, Publication Versio
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