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Goldstone Boson's Valence-Quark Distribution

C. D. Roberts

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0111030

Abstract

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB) is one of the keystones of low-energy hadronic phenomena. Dyson-Schwinger equations provide a model-independent quark-level understanding and correlate that with the behaviour of the pion's Bethe-Salpeter amplitude. This amplitude is a core element in the calculation of pion observables and combined with the dressed-quark Schwinger function required by DCSB it yields a valence-quark distribution function for the pion that behaves as (1-x)2 for x~1, in accordance with perturbative analyses. This behaviour can be verified at contemporary experimental facilities.

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