Investigation of the internal structure of the deuteron against the background of two-photon exchange effects in elastic electron-deuteron scattering

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the simultaneous influence of two-photon effects in quantum electrodynamics and logarithmic corrections in quantum chromodynamics on certain observable experimental quantities (structure functions A(Q2) and B(Q2) in elastic electron-deuteron scattering). Analyzing these effects broadens our understanding of electron scattering physics, particularly the manifestations of quark-gluon degrees of freedom in the deuteron.

Keywords

• quantum electrodynamics
• perturbative quantum chromodynamics
• elastic electron-deuteron scattering
• deuteron structure functions
• two-photon exchange
• theory-data comparison
• structure of the deuteron