RUI: Three Dimensional Structure of the Nucleon in QCD

RUI：QCD 中核子的三维结构

• 批准号: 1623454
• 负责人: Alexey Prokudin
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623454&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Three; Dimensional; Structure; Nucleon

Exploration of the internal structure of the nucleon, the proton or neutron in the nucleus, is one of the main goals of modern nuclear physics. Our understanding of the nucleon as an interacting system of yet more fundamental particles, quarks and gluons, collectively called partons, is based on the theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD). Partons are both confined and moving inside of the nucleon. The exploration of the nucleon structure that incorporates the motion of partons will allow us to gain new information on the three dimensional (3D) structure of the nucleon. Knowing how the constituent parts combine together is essential to understanding the properties of the nucleon that we observe. The PI will work towards an improved phenomenological description of the 3D structure of the nucleon and will develop a web interface server based at PSU Berks to make the results available to researchers and the general public. Undergraduate students will be trained and supported by this project. The scientific goals of the project are to extract precisely the Transverse Momentum Dependent distribution and fragmentation functions (TMDs) that describe the 3D nucleon structure, from the existing experimental data. TMDs are intimately related to the correlations of parton motion and the spin of the parton and /or the spin of the nucleon and generate Spin Asymmetries in scattering processes. The project is intended to unify existing formalisms of the description of the 3D nucleon structure, and ultimately explore the origin of the Spin Asymmetries in various processes. The data from past and existing facilities, such as HERMES (DESY), COMPASS (CERN), and Jefferson Lab, BELLE (KEK), BaBar (SLAC), BESIII (Beijing), RHIC (BNL), LHC (CERN), will be used in the studies. The results of the project will help with planning future experiments at Jefferson Lab 12, and a future Electron Ion Collider. The project will also lead to the extraction of fundamental charges of the nucleon, in particular, the nucleon's tensor charge, which is important for searches of Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics and complements efforts of its calculation in Lattice QCD.

探索核子的内部结构，即原子核中的质子或中子，是现代核物理的主要目标之一。我们对核子的理解是由更基本的粒子、夸克和胶子组成的相互作用系统，统称为部子，是基于强相互作用理论，即量子色动力学(QCD)。部分子既被限制在核子内部，也在核子内部移动。对包含部分子运动的核子结构的探索将使我们能够获得关于核子三维结构的新信息。了解各组成部分是如何结合在一起的，对于理解我们观察到的核子的性质是必不可少的。PI将致力于改进核子3D结构的现象学描述，并将在PSU Berks开发一个网络界面服务器，以向研究人员和普通公众提供结果。该项目将为本科生提供培训和支持。该项目的科学目标是从现有的实验数据中精确地提取描述3D核子结构的横向动量相关分布和碎裂函数(TMD)。TMD与部分子运动与部分子自旋和/或核子自旋的关联密切相关，并在散射过程中产生自旋不对称。该项目旨在统一现有的描述3D核子结构的形式，并最终探索各种过程中自旋不对称的起源。来自过去和现有设施的数据，如爱马仕(DESY)、COMPASS(CERN)和杰斐逊实验室(Jefferson Lab)、Belle(KEK)、BABA(SLAC)、BESIII(北京)、RHIC(BNL)、LHC(CERN)，将用于研究。该项目的结果将有助于规划未来在杰斐逊实验室12号的实验，以及未来的电子离子对撞机。该项目还将导致核子的基电荷，特别是核子的张量电荷的提取，这对于探索超越标准模型(BSM)物理是重要的，并补充了它在晶格QCD中的计算工作。