The Mystery of Bloom-Gilman Duality: A Light Front Holographic QCD Perspective

Abstract

Light front wave functions motivated by holographic constructions are used to study Bloom-Gilman duality of deep inelastic scattering. Separate expressions for structure functions in terms of quark and hadronic degrees of freedom are presented, with a goal of relating the two expressions. A two-parton model is defined and resonance transition form factors are computed using previously derived light front wave functions. A new form of global duality is derived from the valence quark-number sum rule. Using a complete set of hadronic states is necessary for this new global duality to be achieved. Previous original work does not provide such a set. This is remedied by amending the model to include a longitudinal confining potential, and the resulting complete set is sufficient to carry out the study of Bloom-Gilman duality. Expressions for transition form factors are obtained and all are shown to fall asymptotically as 1/Q2. The Feynman mechanism dominates the asymptotic behavior of the model. These transition form factors are used to assess the validity of the global and local duality sum rules, with the result that both neither are satisfied. Evaluations of the hadronic expression for q(x,Q2) provide more details about this lack. This result shows that the observed validity of both global and local forms of duality for deep inelastic scattering must be related to a feature of QCD that is deeper than completeness. Our simple present model suggests a prediction that Bloom-Gilman duality would not be observed if deep inelastic scattering experiments were to be made on the pion. The underlying origin of the duality phenomenon in deep inelastic scattering is deeply buried within the confinement aspects of QCD, and remains a mystery.

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