Lorentz Boosts as Squeeze Transformations and the Parton Picture

Abstract

It was shown by Gribov, Ioffe, Pomeranchuk in 1966 and by Ioffe in 1969 that a space-time picture is needed for the Lorentz deformation of hadronic interaction region. It is shown that this deformation is a squeeze transformation. It is shown also that Feynman's parton picture emerges as a consequence of Lorentz-squeezed hadrons in the quark model.

Comments: 18 pages,LaTex,6 stone-age figures, presented at the Conference on Fundamental Interaction of Elementary Particles, An Annual Meeting of Particle and Nuclear Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (October 1995),to be published in the J. of Moscow Physical Society. For a uncompressed version, send an e-mail to <yskim@physics.umd.edu> with ITEP.TEX on your Subject line