Theoretical Studies of the Quark Structure of Nucleons and Nuclei

确定质子和强子内部夸克和胶子的分布是高能核物理和粒子物理的中心课题之一。 这些分布的形式不仅影响我们对质子结构的理解，而且也影响对需要这些分布作为输入的高能实验的解释。 这个建议的主要重点是计算在各种不同的核子海模型中质子海的电荷不对称贡献。 这个建议的第二个重点是使用轻核的唯象描述来研究核效应对夸克分布的影响。 这样的原子核被足够紧密地束缚，从而对它们的夸克分布表现出显着的核修改，而且足够简单，可以用唯象模型来模拟。 我们建议应用模型和方法，以前已经被用来计算夸克分布的单核轻核，以测试这些模型的可行性作为替代解释所观察到的修改夸克分布的核。

0071658BeneshDetermination of the distributions of quarks and gluons inside ofthe proton and there hadronic particles is one f the central topics in high energy nuclear and particle physics. The form of these distributions impacts not only our understanding of the structure of the proton, but lso affects the interpretation of experiments at higher energies which require these distributions as input. The primary focus of this proposal is the calculation of the harge asymmetric contribution to the proton sea within a variety of distinct models of the nucleon sea. A secondary focus of this proposal is the study of nuclear effects on quark distributions using phenomenological descriptions of light nuclei. Such nuclei are sufficiently tightly bound to exhibit significant nuclear modifications to their quark distributions and yet are simple enough to be modeled phenomenologically. We propose to apply models and methods that have previously been used to calculate the quark distributions of single nucleons to light nuclei in order to test the viability of these models as alternative explanations of the observed modification of quark distributions in nuclei.