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Effective potential between quark and antiquark:
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bound states: simplest color singlets bound states: simplest color singlets
Nuclear Forces indirect consequences …….of color force……. nuclear force : gluonic force nuclear force : gluonic force ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Van-der-Waals force : electromagnetic force Van-der-Waals force : electromagnetic force
nucleon mass in limit of vanishing quark masses: const. calculable, error about 10 %. Exp: MeV Exp: MeV
:about 250 MeV Mass: confined field energy
Nuleon mass: QCD mass and mass contributions from the quark masses QCD u d s QED QCD u d s QED
m(quark)=0 axialvector currents also conserved
chiral symmetry: very light pions, but no SU(2) singlet with small mass
deep inelastic scattering electron proton variables Q 2 = 4 E E ’ sin 2 /2 x = Q 2 /2M p (E ’ – E) Q 2 measures resolution modern experiments measure Q 2 < 10 5 GeV 2 > m = r p /1000 x measures inelasticity x = 1 → elastic 0 < x < 1 → inelastic E E’ photon
probability that a quark carries fraction of parent proton ’ s momentum is q( ) ( 0< < 1 ), then
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where the logarithm comes from (‘collinear singularity’) and then convolute with a ‘bare’ quark distribution in the proton: pxp q 0 (x) + …
scaling violations and QCD quarks emit gluons! Q1Q1 Q 2 > Q 1 The structure function data exhibit systematic violations of Bjorken scaling:
bound states of QCD
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