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I. Baryon-antibaryon phase transition at high temperature. II. Inclusive virtual photon-hadron reactions in the parton model

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Cisneros, Arturo (1973) I. Baryon-antibaryon phase transition at high temperature. II. Inclusive virtual photon-hadron reactions in the parton model. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ZTWX-TK91. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03022016-151750147

Abstract

Part I

Present experimental data on nucleon-antinucleon scattering allow a study of the possibility of a phase transition in a nucleon-antinucleon gas at high temperature. Estimates can be made of the general behavior of the elastic phase shifts without resorting to theoretical derivation. A phase transition which separates nucleons from antinucleons is found at about 280 MeV in the approximation of the second virial coefficient to the free energy of the gas.

Part II

The parton model is used to derive scaling laws for the hadrons observed in deep inelastic electron-nucleon scattering which lie in the fragmentation region of the virtual photon. Scaling relations are obtained in the Bjorken and Regge regions. It is proposed that the distribution functions become independent of both q2 and ν where the Bjorken and Regge regions overlap. The quark density functions are discussed in the limit x→1 for the nucleon octet and the pseudoscalar mesons. Under certain plausible assumptions it is found that only one or two quarks of the six types of quarks and antiquarks have an appreciable density function in the limit x→1. This has implications for the quark fragmentation functions near the large momentum boundary of their fragmentation region. These results are used to propose a method of measuring the proton and neutron quark density functions for all x by making measurements on inclusively produced hadrons in electroproduction only. Implications are also discussed for the hadrons produced in electron-positron annihilation.

Item Type:Thesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Subject Keywords:Physics
Degree Grantor:California Institute of Technology
Division:Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Major Option:Physics
Thesis Availability:Public (worldwide access)
Research Advisor(s):
  • Frautschi, Steven C. (advisor)
  • Feynman, Richard Phillips (advisor)
Thesis Committee:
  • Unknown, Unknown
Defense Date:21 May 1973
Funders:
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Latin American Scholarship Program of American UniversitiesUNSPECIFIED
Record Number:CaltechTHESIS:03022016-151750147
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03022016-151750147
DOI:10.7907/ZTWX-TK91
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ID Code:9601
Collection:CaltechTHESIS
Deposited By: Dan Anguka
Deposited On:04 Mar 2016 21:14
Last Modified:09 Nov 2022 19:20

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