Valence Quark Polarization In the Nucleon And the Deuteron Data

dc.creatorArash, Firooz
dc.creatorTaghavi-Shahri, Fatemeh
dc.date2008-08-21
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dc.descriptionWithin the framework of the so-called "valon" model, we argue that a substantial part of the nucleon spin, about 40%, is carried by the polarized valence quarks. The remaining is the result of cancellations between gluon polarization and the orbital angular momentum, where the gluon polarization is the dominant one. It is shown that the sea quark contribution to the spin of any hadron is simply marginal and consistent with zero. Our findings point to a substantially smaller value for a_8 thaninferred from hyperon- $β$ decay, suggesting that fullSU(3) symmetric assumption needs to be reconsidered. New and emerging experimental data tend to support this finding. Finally, we show that within the model described here the experimental data on the polarized structure functions $g_{1}^{p,n,d}$ are reproduced.
dc.description12 pages, 5 figures To appear in Phys. Lett. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2921
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2921
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B668:193-196,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.08.043
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201922
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleValence Quark Polarization In the Nucleon And the Deuteron Data
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