EPJ Web of Conferences 113, 05025 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611305025

Strong diquark correlations inside the proton

Instituto Universitario de Física Fundamental y Matemáticas (IUFFyM), Universidad de Salamanca, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain

^a e-mail: segonza@usal.es

Published online: 25 March 2016

Abstract

Quantum Chromodynamics is thought to be the relativistic quantum field theory that describes the strong interaction of the Standard Model. This interaction produces mesons but it is also able to generate quark-quark (diquark) correlations inside baryons. In this work, we employ a continuum approach to QCD based on Dyson-Schwinger equations to calculate the electromagnetic form factors of the proton and analyze in a deeper way the consequences of having strong diquark correlations. Comparison with the experimental data reveals that the presence of strong diquark correlations within the proton is sufficient to understand empirical extractions of the flavour-separated form factors. The explained reduction of the ratios F₁^d/F₁^u and F₂^d/F₂^u at high Q² in the quark-diquark picture are responsible of the precocious scaling of the F₂^p/F₁^p observed experimentally.