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Are there any textbooks, or good pedagogical review articles, on the subject of parton distributions? I'm looking for such sources that cover all the standard topics, such as:

  • Generalized parton correlation functions
  • distribution functions
  • distribution amplitudes
  • form factors
  • TMDs, and TMD factorization
  • On the lattice, and other theoretical approaches
  • quasi parton distributions?
  • etc. etc.

Many QFT and QCD textbooks that I've seen just talk about the same select-few topics in DIS and parton distributions, like: cross-section factorization in conjunction with the OPE; bjorken-scaling at 1-loop for hadronic cross sections; DGLAP evolution in factorization scale, along with a calculation of the 1-loop splitting functions; parton distributions as light-cone correlators.

But everything else that I actually need to know for research in this area I can only find from reverse-engineering random papers that I come across — which I suppose is common in most fields in any academic discipline. It's just an overwhelming amount of information I suppose.

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