Why do you think your paper is highly cited?
Can you describe the significance of your work for the field of photonics research?
This paper is highly cited since it provides a
reasonably good description of available data on the structure function of the
photon within the framework of a dynamical model containing practically no free
ad hoc parameters. Thus the predicted parton distributions of the photon have
a high degree of plausibility and were therefore broadly used for estimates
concerning other photon-induced deep inelastic processes. These predictions
turned out to be quite satisfactory.
What were the circumstances that led you to do this research?
The research was part of our general studies of the parton structure of hadrons
(nucleons and pions) within the framework of the QCD radiative parton model.
Here we extended this analysis to the photon by imposing a VMD inspired input
at the low resolution (input) scale—characterizing the above-mentioned radiative
model—determined in our analysis of the fundamental structure of nucleons and
pions.
Dr. M. Glϋck
Institute for Physics
University of Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
elow, Dr. M. Glϋck discusses the fourth
most-cited paper in our Special Topic on Photonics research: “Photonic parton
distributions,” (Physical Review D 46[5]: 1973-9, 1 September 1992).
This paper has been cited 321 times to date. In the 
Web product, Dr. Glϋck’s record includes 67
papers cited a total of 3,017 times to date in the field of Physics. Dr. Glϋck
is a professor at the University of Dortmund’s Institute for Physics.