Compton scattering, vector-meson photoproduction, and the partonic structure of the nucleon
Compton scattering, vector-meson photoproduction, and the partonic structure of the nucleon
At moderate and large momentum transfer, high energy vector-meson photoproduction and Compton scattering can be consistently explained by mechanisms based on interactions and exchanges of constituent quarks and gluons. This opens an original window to the partonic structure of hadronic matter by emphasizing the role of quark correlations, quark exchange …