Contribution of Hard Near Threshold Pion Electro Production to Nucleon Structure Functions

TL;DR

This paper presents a precise calculation of how hard near threshold pion electro production influences nucleon structure functions, enhancing theoretical understanding and aligning well with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces an improved framework that separates threshold and soft pion contributions, incorporating antisymmetric effects into nucleon transition form factors.

Findings

Enhanced agreement with experimental data

Improved relations for transition form factors

Predictions for future experiments

Abstract

We provide a precise calculation for the contribution of hard near threshold pion electro production to all nucleon structure functions. This framework will allow us to split the required nucleon to pion nucleon transition probability matrix element into an exact threshold part parametrized by nucleon to pion nucleon transition form factors plus soft pion structures. These transition form factors will be related to nucleon form factors by taking into account symmetric and antisymmetric contributions of the needed leading twist nucleon distribution amplitude. Whereas the relations generated by the symmetric contributions are already known, this work will improve these relations by adding reasonable antisymmetric contributions. The obtained results show enhanced and significant consistency to experimental data, so that various predictions for further interesting experiments will be presented.