Baryon Structure

Abstract

A review of the theoretical activity in Italy in the research field of Hadronic Physics is given. Specific focus is put on phenomenological models based on the effective degrees of freedom of constituent quarks, on parton distributions in hard processes in the Bjorken limit and on the possibility of linking the two concepts via evolution equations. A brief introduction is given also about the socalled generalized parton distributions.

Comments: 20 pages, no figures, invited general report at the "IX Convegno su Problemi di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica", Cortona, Oct. 9-12, 2002 (Italy), to appear in World Scientific Proceedings