Generalized parton distributions and the structure of the nucleon

Understand

Generalized parton distributions have been introduced in recent years as a suitable theoretical tool to study the structure of the nucleon.

• Unifying the concepts of parton distributions and hadronic form factors, they provide a comprehensive framework for describing the quark and gluon structure of the nucleon.
• In this review their formal properties and modeling are discussed, summarizing the most recent developments in the phenomenological description of these functions.
• The status of available data is also presented.