167 research outputs found
Hadronic degrees of freedom
I report on the research activities performed under the (italian) MURST-PRIN
project "Fisica Teorica del Nucleo e dei sistemi a pi\'u corpi" covering part
of the topics on hadronic degrees of freedom. The most recent achievements in
the field are summarized focusing on the specific role of the nuclear physics
community.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of 8th Convegno su Problemi di Fisica
Nucleare Teorica (Cortona 2000), Cortona, Italy, 18-21 Oct. 2000, uses
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Coulomb Distortion in Quasielastic Scattering on Nuclei: Effective Momentum Approximation and Beyond
The role of the effective momentum approximation to disentangle Coulomb
distortion effects in quasielastic reactions is investigated. The
separation of the cross section in longitudinal and transverse components is
discussed including higher order DWBA corrections due to the focusing of the
electron waves.The experimental studies performed, in the last few years,
making use of different approximate treatments are shown to be sometime
inconsistent. As a consequence some of the longitudinal and transverse
responses, extracted from the inclusive cross sections cannot be considered
reliable. A separation procedure based on the effective momentum approximation
is discussed in connection with the recent experimental data on
electron/positron quasielastic scattering on C and Pb.Comment: latex, no figures, submitted to Nucl. Phys.
Exploring the transition into the Chiral Regime of QCD using the Interacting Instanton Liquid Model
The non-perturbative quark-gluon interaction depends significantly on the
value of the quark mass. In particular, in the light quark mass regime,
correlations are strongly influenced by dynamics associated to chiral symmetry
breaking. We use the Interacting Instanton Liquid Model (IILM) as a tool to
investigate the microscopic dynamical mechanisms which underly the dependence
on the quark mass and drive the transition into the chiral regime of QCD. To
ensure the validity of the model, we first verify that the dependence on the
quark mass for several observables calculated in the IILM agrees well with the
predictions of chiral perturbation theory and with lattice simulations. We then
show that a quark mass m*~80 MeV emerging naturally from the model specifies
the mass scale above which the dynamics associated with low-lying eigenmodes of
the Direac operator becomes sub-leading and the contribution of the fermion
determinant is suppressed.Comment: contribution to XXV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory,
July 2007, Regensbur
Double parton correlations in Light-Front constituent quark model
Double parton distribution functions (dPDF) represent a tool to explore the
3D proton structure. They can be measured in high energy proton-proton and
proton nucleus collisions and encode information on how partons inside a proton
are correlated among each other. dPFDs are studied here in the valence quark
region, by means of a constituent quark model, where two particle correlations
are present without any additional prescription. This framework allows to
understand the dynamical origin of the correlations and to clarify which, among
the features of the results, are model independent. Use will be made of a
relativistic light-front scheme, able to overcome some drawbacks of the
previous calculation. Transverse momentum correlations, due to the exact
treatment of the boosts, are predicted and analyzed. The role of spin
correlations is also shown. Due to the covariance of the approach, some
symmetries of the dPDFs are seen unambigously. For the valence sector, the
study of the QCD evolution of the model results, which can be performed safely
thanks to the property of good support, has been also completed.Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures, invited talk at the "XLIV ISMD Conference",
Bologna, Italy, 8-12 September 2014. Submitted to EPJ Web of Conference
A model calculation of double parton distribution functions of the pion
Two-parton correlations in the pion are investigated in terms of double
parton distribution functions. A Poincar\'e covariant Light-Front framework has
been adopted. As non perturbative input, the pion wave function obtained within
the so-called soft-wall AdS/QCD model has been used. Results show how novel
dynamical information on the structure of the pion, not accessible through
one-body parton distribution, are encoded in double parton distribution
functions.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
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