| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 66, 2014
INPC 2013 – International Nuclear Physics Conference
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| Article Number | 01001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Plenary Talks | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146601001 | |
| Published online | 20 March 2014 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146601001
Structure and spin of the nucleon
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Ave. Suite 5, Newport News, VA 23606
a e-mail: avakian@jlab.org
Published online: 20 March 2014
Parton distribution functions, describing longitudinal momentum, helicity and transversity distributions of quarks and gluons, have been recently generalized to account also for transverse degrees of freedom. Two new sets of more general distributions, Transverse Momentum Distributions and Generalized Parton Distributions, were introduced to describe transverse momentum and space distributions of partons.
Great progress has been made since then in measurements of different Single Spin Asymmetries (SSAs) in semi-inclusive and hard exclusive processes providing access to TMDs and GPDs, respectively. Facilities world-wide involved in studies of the 3D structure of nucleon include HERMES, COMPASS, BELLE, BaBar, Halls A, B, and C at JLab, and PHENIX and STAR at RHIC (BNL). TMD studies in the Drell-Yan process are also becoming an important part of the program of hadron scattering experiments. Studies of TMDs are also among the main driving forces of the JLab 12-GeV upgrade project, several of the forward upgrade proposals of STAR and PHENIX at RHIC, and future facilities, such as the Electron Ion Collider (EIC), FAIR in Germany, and NICA in Russia. In this contribution we present an overview of the latest developments in studies of parton distributions and discuss newly released results, ongoing activities, as well as some future measurements.
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