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The perturbative pion form factor with Sudakov suppression

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We give a modified perturbative expression for the pion electromagnetic form factor in perturbative QCD, which includes Sudakov suppression of the elastic scattering of quarks that are isolated in space. Beyond momentum transfers of 20ΛQCD the perturbative calculation becomes relatively insensitive to soft gluon exchange. Our analysis involves no phenomenological parameters such as a gluon mass, and may be applied to the proton form factor.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)129-140
Number of pages12
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume381
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 17 1992

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