Studying Hadronic Structure of the Photon in Lattice QCD.pdfVIP

UMD PP#01-007DOE/ER/40762-214 STUDYING HADRONIC STRUCTURE OF THE PHOTON IN LATTICE QCD Xiangdong Ji and Chulwoo Jung Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (Jan. 22, 2001) 1 0 0 Abstract 2 n a We show that the matrix element of a local quark-gluon operator in the J ˆ 2 photon state, γ (kλ)|O |γ (kλ), can be calculated in lattice QCD. The result 2 is generalized to other quantities involving space-like photons, including the 1 transition form factor γγ ∗ → π0 and the virtual-photon-nucleon Compton am- v plitude γ ∗N |γ ∗N which can be used to define the generalized Drell-Hearn- 4 Gerasimov and Bjorken sum rules. 1 0 1 0 1 0 / t a l- Ever since the 1960’s, it has been well known that the photon is not just a point-like p particle; rather, it has a complicated hadronic structure. Similarity of the photon-nucleon e h scattering cross section to that of meson-nucleon scattering has led to the so-called vector : dominance model of photon-hadron interactions [1]. In recent years, the photon structure v i + − has been explored extensively in e e and ep collider experiments [2]. For instance, in the X + − r certain kinematic region, e e scattering is effectively the real and deeply-virtual photon a collision, from which the partonic structure of the real photon