Dynamical Structure of Hadrons

Abstract

Let us consider the inelastic processes ${e^ - }N \to {e^ - }X,\;{\mu ^ - }N \to {\mu ^ - }X,\;vN \to {\mu ^ - }X,\;\bar vN \to {\mu ^ + }X,$ where N denotes a nucleon and X stands for all other particles. These processes exhibit in the deep-inelastic region an interesting and important property referred to as scaling. It is this property whose discovery gave a strong impact on the development of contemporary views on the hadron structure. The above processes will be given here a detailed analysis.