Session L3: Sakurai Prize Session
3:30 PM–5:18 PM, Sunday, May 3, 2009
Room: Plaza E
Sponsoring Unit:
DPF
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.APR.L3.2
Abstract: L3.00002 : J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk: Partons, QCD, and Factorization
4:06 PM–4:42 PM
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Author:
Davison Soper
(University of Oregon)
Many important cross sections in high-energy collisions are analyzed using factorization properties. I review the nature of factorization, how it arose from the parton model, and current issues in its development. This talk will be coordinated with the one by Collins.
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