Determination of the Pion Structure Function from Muon-Pair Production
- 9 April 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 42 (15), 951-955
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.42.951
Abstract
Data on muon-pair production by pions are used to determine the momentum distribution for valence quarks in the pion. The shape of a nucleon structure function is also obtained and is compared with a calculation based on existing data.Keywords
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