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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00658-7
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [12135007, 11805097]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [PID2020-113334GB, PID2019-107844GBC22]
- Generalitat Valenciana [Prometeo/2019/087]
- Junta de Andalucia [P18-FR-5057, UHU-1264517, UHU EPIT2021]
- STRONG-2020 The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications - European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [824093]
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf High Potential Programme
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The analysis of the pion valence-quark distribution function predicts that its behavior at x approximately equal to 1 follows the model of (1 - x)(β(σ)), taking into account the pion wave function prescribed by QCD. However, the empirical status of this behavior remains uncertain due to disagreements in fitting existing data. Further experimental data is needed to reach a final conclusion.
Analyses of the pion valence-quark distribution function (DF), u(pi) (x; sigma), which explicitly incorporate the behaviour of the pion wave function prescribed by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), predict u(pi) (x similar or equal to 1; sigma) similar to (1 - x)(beta(sigma)), beta(sigma greater than or similar to m(p)) > 2, where mp is the proton mass. Nevertheless, more than forty years after the first experiment to collect data suitable for extracting the x similar or equal to 1 behaviour of up, the empirical status remains uncertain because some methods used to fit existing data return a result for up that violates this constraint. Such disagreement entails one of the following conclusions: the analysis concerned is incomplete; not all data being considered are a true expression of qualities intrinsic to the pion; or QCD, as it is currently understood, is not the theory of strong interactions. New, precise data are necessary before a final conclusion is possible. In developing these positions, we exploit a single proposition, viz. there is an effective charge which defines an evolution scheme for parton DFs that is all-orders exact. This proposition has numerous corollaries, which can be used to test the character of any DF, whether fitted or calculated.
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