Probing the nucleon at large momentum tramsfer

Abstract

The central role of soft nucleon matrix elements in reactions of high energy electrons or real photons with nucleons is emphasized. These soft matrix elements are described in terms of skewed parton distributions. Their connections to ordinary parton distributions, form factors, Compton scattering and hard meson electroproduction is discussed.

Comments: 11 pages, 12 Postscript figures, fleqn, espcrc1, epsfig