https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16161-7
Review
Modelling the nucleon structure
1
Department of Physics, New Mexico State, University, 88003, Las Cruces, NM, USA
2
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
3
INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
* e-mail: pasquini@pv.infn.it
Received:
9
October
2015
Accepted:
16
October
2015
Published online:
21
June
2016
We review the status of our understanding of nucleon structure based on the modelling of different kinds of parton distributions. We use the concept of generalized transverse-momentum-dependent parton distributions and Wigner distributions, which combine the features of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distributions and generalized parton distributions. We revisit various quark models which account for different aspects of these parton distributions. We then identify applications of these distributions to gain a simple interpretation of key properties of the quark and gluon dynamics in the nucleon.
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