A check-up for the statistical Parton model
Abstract
We compare the Parton distributions deduced in the framework of a quantum statistical approach for both the longitudinal and transverse degrees of freedom with the unpolarized distributions measured at HERA and with the polarized ones proposed in a previous paper, which have been shown to be in very good agreement also with the results of experiments performed after that proposal. The agreement with HERA data in correspondence to very similar values for the “temperature” and the “potentials” found in the previous work gives a robust confirm of the statistical model. The unpolarized distributions are compared also with the result of NNPDF. The free parameters are fixed mainly by data in the range (0.1, 0.5) for the x variable, where the valence Partons dominate, and in the small x region for the diffractive contribution. This feature makes the parametrization proposed here very attractive.
