Quasiparton

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    (physics) empty-gloss, no-gloss

    "Recent developments showed that light cone parton distributions can be studied by investigating the large momentum limit of the so-called quasiparton distributions, which are defined in terms of spacelike correlators, and therefore can be readily computed on the lattice."

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"Recent developments showed that light cone parton distributions can be studied by investigating the large momentum limit of the so-called quasiparton distributions, which are defined in terms of spacelike correlators, and therefore can be readily computed on the lattice."

Etymology

From quasi- + parton.

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