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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
The operator product expansion plus renormalization group result (22.2.34) tells us how QCD controls the Q2 variation of the moments of the deep inelastic structure functions. But it does not give us the actual value of the moments, since they depend upon unknown, non-calculable, hadronic matrix elements ON,j of certain operators. In Section 22.2.5 we saw that the moment equations can be replaced by an equation controlling the Q2 variation of the structure functions themselves, and this could be interpreted [see (22.2.53)] as a Q2 variation of the parton densities. Again the equation does not give us the actual value of the parton distribution—only their Q2 evolution is calculable. Thus the rôle of the unknown ON,j in the moment equation is taken by the unknown in the evolution equation.
It should be clear that all the difficulty stems from the hadrons. They are a non-perturbative manifestation of QCD and the problem is to derive some consequences of QCD without being able to handle the genuinely non-perturbative aspect. One is seeking a blend of the perturbative and the non-perturbative and the boundary between them is subtle. If individual hadrons are not involved, for example, in the totally inclusive reaction e+e− → hadrons, we can use purely perturbative QCD and end up with a genuine calculation of the cross-section to some order in αs, with no unknown constants or functions appearing. This can be seen in (22.1.22).
In the present chapter we develop a well defined calculational scheme for handling reactions involving individual hadrons—the QCD-improved parton model.
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