TWIST-4 NUCLEAR PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS FROM PHOTOPRODUCTION

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作者
LUO, M [1 ]
QIU, JW [1 ]
STERMAN, G [1 ]
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[1] SUNY STONY BROOK,INST THEORET PHYS,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 49卷 / 09期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.49.4493
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P1 [天文学];
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We analyze anomalous nuclear enhancement in the photoproduction of jets as a higher-twist process in perturbative QCD. We use the Fermilab E683 data on dijet momentum imbalance to estimate the size of the relevant twist-4 parton distributions. We find that twist-4 matrix elements are of the order of 0.05-0.1 GeV2 times typical twist-2 parton distributions. We discuss a physical interpretation of the nuclear enhancement as a measure of the average net transverse color force on an off-shell parton moving through nuclear matter, and give an order-of-magnitude estimate for the typical squared transverse field strengths encountered by a fast moving parton.
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页码:4493 / 4502
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