2001/01/17 by C. Bourrely, J. Soffer
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
published as Scattering, Eds R. Spike and P. Sabatier (Academic Press 2002) p. 1565-81 · 29 pages, 19 eps figures, RevTeX
arxiv created 2001/01/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We present the basic aspects of deep inelastic phenomena in the framework of the QCD parton model. After recalling briefly the standard kinematics, we discuss the physical interpretation of unpolarized and polarized structure functions in terms of parton distributions together with several important sum rules. We also make a rapid survey of the experimental situation together with phenomenological tests, in particular concerning various QCD predictions. In the summary, we try to identify some significant open questions, to clarify where we stand and to see what we expect to learn in the future.