Reduced nuclear amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics
Author(s) -
Stanley J. Brodsky,
John R. Hiller
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
physical review c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-490X
pISSN - 0556-2813
DOI - 10.1103/physrevc.28.475
Subject(s) - physics , quantum chromodynamics , photodisintegration , nucleon , particle physics , formalism (music) , scattering amplitude , amplitude , nuclear physics , scattering , deuterium , quantum mechanics , art , musical , visual arts
We present a new formalism which systematically accounts for nucleon compositeness in nuclear scattering amplitudes, consistent with quantum chromodynamics and covariance. Reduced gauge-invariant nuclear amplitudes are defined which have elementary quantum chromodynamic scaling properties. The procedure is applied to the photodisintegration and electrodisintegration of the deuteron as a test of nuclear chromodynamics and as a method to isolate contributions of dibaryon resonances.
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