TY - BOOK ID - 14223055 TI - Hadron Structure in Electroweak Precision Measurements PY - 2016 SN - 3319202200 3319202219 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Electroweak interactions. KW - Hadrons. KW - Physics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Atomic Physics KW - Nuclear Physics KW - Interactions, Electroweak KW - Strongly interacting particles KW - Electromagnetic interactions KW - Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics) KW - Weak interactions (Nuclear physics) KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - Partons KW - Quantum theory. KW - Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. KW - Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. KW - Quantum dynamics KW - Quantum mechanics KW - Quantum physics KW - Mechanics KW - Thermodynamics KW - Elementary particles (Physics). KW - Quantum field theory. KW - Mathematical physics. KW - Elementary particles (Physics) KW - High energy physics KW - Nuclear particles KW - Nucleons KW - Nuclear physics KW - Physical mathematics KW - Relativistic quantum field theory KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Quantum theory KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Mathematics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14223055 AB - This thesis examines the γZ box contribution to the weak charge of the proton. Here, by combining recent parity-violating electron-deuteron scattering data with our current understanding of parton distribution functions, the author shows that one can limit this model dependence. The resulting construction is a robust model of the γγ and γZ structure functions that can also be used to study a variety of low-energy phenomena. Two such cases are discussed in this work, namely, the nucleon’s electromagnetic polarizabilities and quark-hadron duality.          By using phenomenological information to constrain the input structure functions, this important but previously poorly understood radiative correction is determined at the kinematics of the parity-violating experiment, QWEAK, to a degree of precision more than twice that of the previous best estimate.   A detailed investigation into available parametrizations of the electromagnetic and interference cross-sections indicates that earlier analyses suffered from the inability to correctly quantify their model dependence. ER -