Skip to content

Generalized parton distributions in a meson cloud model

B. Pasquini, S. Boffi

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0607213

Abstract

We present a model calculation of the generalized parton distributions where the nucleon is described by a quark core surrounded by a mesonic cloud. In the one-meson approximation, we expand the Fock state of the physical nucleon in a series involving a bare nucleon and two-particle, meson-baryon, states. We discuss the role of the different Fock-state components of the nucleon by deriving a convolution formalism for the unpolarized generalized parton distributions, and showing predictions at different kinematics.

Create a lesson