EXCLUSIVE PROCESSES AND THE EXCLUSIVE - INCLUSIVE CONNECTION IN QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS Stanley

Although the structure of large momentum transfer inclusive reactions is now well understood in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, exclusive processes involving large transfer of momentum have received relatively little attention since they involve detailed, explicit features of hadronic wavefunctions. On the other hand, the dimensional counting132 ansatz, which is based on the premise that the high momentum tail of wavefunctions can be computed from the first iteration of a scale-invariant Bethe-Saipeter kernel, leads to a number of successful predictions for form factors, hadron scattering and photoproduction at large angles, as well as the x+1 dependence of the structure functions.