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Concerning pion parton distributions

Cui, Z.-F.; Ding, M.; Morgado, J. M.; Raya, K.; Binosi, D.; Chang, L.; Papavassiliou, J.; Roberts, C. D.; Rodriguez-Quintero, J.; Schmidt, S. M.

Analyses of the pion valence-quark distribution function (DF), ${\mathpzc u}^\pi(x;\zeta)$, which explicitly incorporate the behaviour of the pion wave function prescribed by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), predict ${\mathpzc u}^\pi(x\simeq 1;\zeta) \sim (1-x)^{\beta(\zeta)}$, $\beta(\zeta \gtrsim m_p)>2$, where $m_p$ is the proton mass. Nevertheless, more than forty years after the first experiment to collect data suitable for extracting the $x\simeq 1$ behaviour of ${\mathpzc u}^\pi$, the empirical status remains uncertain because some methods used to fit existing data return a result for ${\mathpzc u}^\pi$ that violates this constraint. Such disagreement entails one of the following conclusions: the analysis concerned is incomplete; not all data being considered are a true expression of qualities intrinsic to the pion; or QCD, as it is currently understood, is not the theory of strong interactions. New, precise data are necessary before a final conclusion is possible. In developing these positions, we exploit a single proposition, \emph{viz}.\ there is an effective charge which defines an evolution scheme for parton DFs that is all-orders exact. This proposition has numerous corollaries, which can be used to test the character of any DF, whether fitted or calculated.

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