The parton: “It works even if you don’t believe in it”
FEB 01, 1971
DOI: 10.1063/1.3022560
A picture of the proton at high energies is emerging from the work of many theorists trying to explain the deep inelastic scattering observed with the SLAC electron linac. These theories visualize the proton as consisting of pointlike constituents with charge less than the electron charge and a spin of 1/2. The deep inelastic scattering, they say, measures the momentum distribution within the proton of these pointlike constituents, be they quarks, partons or “stratons” (a term coined by the Chinese to refer to the stratification of atoms, nuclei and nucleons).
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