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Unitarity with quarks despite confinement: Connection between deep inelastic scattering and deep inelastic annihilation processes in the scaling limit

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We prove that in a parton model which incorporates confinement there exists a subtle connection between analyticity of the virtual Compton amplitude and unitarity with quarks. Then we show that the experimental data on\(\nu \bar W_2 \) for pions and νW 2 for nucleons indicatein our model an exactly zero free mass of at least one of the u or d quarks. This turns out, also, to be essential to understand the accepted behaviour of the pion electromagnetic form factor.

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Si prova che in un modello partonico che comprende il confinamento esiste una sottile connessione tra l’analiticità dell’ampiezza virtuale di Compton e l’unitarietà con i quark. Si monstra quindi che i dati sperimentali su\(\nu \bar W_2 \) per i pioni e νW 2 per i nucleoni indicano in questo modello una massa libera esattamentenulla di almeno uno dei quark u e d. Ciò risulta essenziale anche per capire il comportamento accettato del fattore di forma elettromagnetico del pione.

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Alonso, J.L., Azcoiti, V. Unitarity with quarks despite confinement: Connection between deep inelastic scattering and deep inelastic annihilation processes in the scaling limit. Nuov Cim A 74, 9–16 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829857

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