Feynman diagram representing deep inelastic scattering of a lepton (l) on a hadron (h), at leading order in perturbative expansion. The virtual photon (γ*) knocks a quark (q) out of the hadron.
In particle physics, deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos.[1][2] It was first attempted in the 1960s and 1970s and provided the first convincing evidence of the reality of quarks, which up until that point had been considered by many to be a purely mathematical phenomenon. It is an extension of Rutherford scattering to much higher energies of the scattering particle and thus to much finer resolution of the components of the nuclei.
Henry Way Kendall, Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor were joint recipients of the Nobel Prize of 1990 "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."[3]
^Devenish, Robin; Cooper-Sarkar, Amanda (2003). Deep Inelastic Scattering. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198506713.001.0001. ISBN 9780198506713.
^Feltesse, Joël (March 2012). Introduction to Deep Inelastic Scattering: Past and Present. XX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects. University of Bonn. doi:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2012-02/6.
the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). As in Rutherford scattering, deepinelasticscattering of electrons by proton targets revealed that most of the...
Furthermore, momentum is conserved in both elastic and inelasticscattering. Other results than scattering are reactions, in which the structure of the interacting...
ionized, representing an inelasticscattering process. The term "deepinelasticscattering" refers to a special kind of scattering experiment in particle...
possible to tune the (scattering) contrast to suit the experiment. Scattering almost always presents both elastic and inelastic components. The fraction...
structure of the nucleon following the discovery of high levels of deepinelasticscattering at SLAC. In 1972 two muon beams were proposed for the then new...
effect is the surprising observation that the cross section for deepinelasticscattering from an atomic nucleus is different from that of the same number...
Richard Taylor, "for their pioneering investigations concerning deepinelasticscattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of...
proposed that pointlike partons would imply certain relations in deepinelasticscattering of electrons and protons, which were verified in experiments at...
The first evidence for the existence of quarks came in 1968, in deepinelasticscattering experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. These experiments...
Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle...
Devenish co-authored a book on the subject of deepinelasticscattering, entitled DeepInelasticScattering. The Max Born prize (announced in December 2008)...
Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deepinelasticscattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of...
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varying energy scales. Experimentally observed scaling violation in deepinelasticscattering is important evidence for the correctness of the equations and...
Vladimir Gribov, laying a basis for a field theory description of deepinelasticscattering and annihilation (Gribov-Lipatov evolution equations, later known...
was found until 1968 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Deepinelasticscattering experiments indicated that protons had substructure, and that...
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similarly high densities occur, such as within neutron stars. Using deepinelasticscattering, it has been estimated that the "size" of an electron, if it is...
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