https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146606022
Short-range correlations of partons & 3D nucleon structure
Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Published online: 20 March 2014
Dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry in QCD is caused by non-perturbative interactions on a scale ρ ∼ 0.3 fm much smaller than the hadronic size R ∼ 1 fm. This has important consequences for the nucleon structure such as the prediction that the transverse momentum distribution of sea quarks is significantly broader than the pT -distribution of valence quarks due to short-range correlations between sea quarks in the nucleon’s light-cone wave function.
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