Scale Dependence of Hadronic Wave Functions and Parton Densities
Abstract
We study how the components of hadronic wave functions in light-cone quantization depend on the ultraviolet cut-off by relating them in a systematic way to the matrix elements of a class of quark-gluon operators between the QCD vacuum and the hadrons. From this, we derive an infinite set of scale-evolution equations for the individual contributions to parton distributions from the Fock expansion. When summed over all the contributions, we recover the well-known DGLAP equation.
- Publication:
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Exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2002ephm.conf..130Y