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Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 54, 2004

Review Article

GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS

Xiangdong Ji¹
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Affiliations: Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20879; email: [email protected]
Vol. 54:413-450 (Volume publication date December 2004) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.54.070103.181302
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This review explains why generalized parton distributions and the related quantum phase-space distributions are useful in exploring the quark and gluon structure of the proton and neutron. It starts with the physics of form factors and parton distributions. Then quantum phase-space distributions and their offspring are discussed. The properties of generalized parton distributions are described. In particular, I elucidate the relation to the spin structure of the nucleon. Finally, various methods to determine the new distributions are explained.

Keyword(s): 12.38.−t, 13.40.−f, 14.20.Dh, form factors, nucleon spin, nucleon structure, quantum phase-space distributions, quark orbital motion

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GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS

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