Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-07-12
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A19 (2004) 5435-5442
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LaTex 12 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 26th MRST Conference on High-Eenergy Physics (Montreal, Canada, 2004), to be publi
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X04022682
The energy-momentum relations for massive and massless particles are E = p^2/2m and E = pc respectively. According to Einstein, these two different expressions come from the same formula E = \sqrt{(cp)^2 + m^2 c^4}. Quarks and partons are believed to be the same particles, but they have quite different properties. Are they two different manifestations of the same covariant entity as in the case of Einstein's energy-momentum relation? The answer to this question is YES. It is possible to construct harmonic oscillator wave functions which can be Lorentz-boosted. They describe quarks bound together inside hadrons. When they are boosted to an infinite-momentum frame, these wave functions exhibit all the peculiar properties of Feynman's parton picture. This formalism leads to a parton distribution corresponding to the valence quarks, with a good agreement with the experimentally observed distribution.
Kim Yong Seol
Noz Marilyn E.
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