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The Valence Quark Structure Of The Nucleon, Christopher A. Leon
The Valence Quark Structure Of The Nucleon, Christopher A. Leon
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The nucleon is a composite object, formed from a sea of quarks, anti-quarks and gluons being continuously created and annihilated. Among this complexity, however, there are three valence quarks that give the nucleon its baryon and flavor numbers. Here we investigate the dynamical structure of valence quarks inside the nucleon. The primary tool used will be patron distribution functions (PDFs), which give the distribution of momentum fraction, x, of the quarks and gluons inside the nucleon. By examining the PDFs of the valence quarks from phenomenological fits, we derive a new model-independent relation of PDF peaks and connect it to …