Quark-Hadron Duality in Electron Scattering

Quark-Hadron Duality in Neutrino Scattering

We present a phenomenological model of the quark-hadron transition in neutrino-nucleon scattering. Using recently extracted weak nucleon transition form factors, we investigate the extent to which local and global quark-hadron duality is applicable in the neutrino F1, F2 and F3 structure functions, and contrast this with duality in electron scattering. Our findings suggest that duality works re...

Local Quark-hadron Duality in Electron Scattering

We present some recent developments in the study of quark-hadron duality in structure functions in the resonance region. To understand the workings of local duality we introduce the concept of truncated moments, which are used to describe the Q dependence of specific resonance regions within a QCD framework.

First Stage of a Program to Investigate Quark Hadron Duality in Electron and Neutrino Scattering on Nucleons and Nuclei in Collaboration with the Fermilab MINERvA Experiment

Duality in Meson Electroproduction

We propose to study quark-hadron duality in meson electroproduction. While duality between inclusive electron-hadron scattering in the resonance and deep inelastic regimes (Bloom-Gilman or quark-baryon duality) is well established, the existence of a similar duality in meson electroproduction has not yet been tested. In the inclusive case, duality implies that single-quark scattering governs th...

Experimental verification of quark-hadron duality

A newly obtained sample of inclusive electron-nucleon scattering data has been analyzed for precision tests of quark-hadron duality. The data are in the nucleon resonance region, and span the range 0. 3<Q2<5.0 (GeV/c)(2). Duality is observed both in limited and extended regions around the prominent resonance enhancements. Higher twist contributions to the F2 structure function are found to be s...