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The quark form factor in quantum chromodynamics

Nuclear Physics BPublished 1 September 1981
P. E. L. Rakow, B.R. Webber
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Abstract

It is shown how leading logarithmic predictions of certain quark form factor effects in QCD, such as the suppression of the Drell-Yan process at small transverse momenta and of the collinear energy-energy correlation in e+e− annihilation, are invalidated by non-leading logarithms corresponding to the vectorial cancellation of gluon transverse momenta. Simple improved expressions incorporating this phenomenon are presented.

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Physics and Astronomy