Higher twists in polarized DIS and the size of the constituent quark
| dc.creator | Sidorov, A. V. | |
| dc.creator | Weiss, C. | |
| dc.date | 2006-02-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:44:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:44:45Z | |
| dc.description | The spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry implies the presence of a short-distance scale in the QCD vacuum, which phenomenologically may be associated with the "size" of the constituent quark, rho ~ 0.3 fm. We discuss the role of this scale in the matrix elements of the twist-4 and 3 quark-gluon operators determining the leading power (1/Q^2-) corrections to the moments of the nucleon spin structure functions. We argue that the flavor-nonsinglet twist-4 matrix element, f_2^{u - d}, has a sizable negative value of the order rho^{-2}, due to the presence of sea quarks with virtualities ~ rho^{-2} in the proton wave function. The twist-3 matrix element, d_2, is not related to the scale rho^{-2}. Our arguments support the results of previous calculations of the matrix elements in the instanton vacuum model. We show that this qualitative picture is in agreement with the phenomenological higher-twist correction extracted from an NLO QCD fit to the world data on g_1^p and g_1^n, which include recent data from the Jefferson Lab Hall A and COMPASS experiments. We comment on the implications of the short-distance scale rho for quark-hadron duality and the x-dependence of higher-twist contributions. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages, 4 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0602142 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0602142 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.D73:074016,2006 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.074016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/182707 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Higher twists in polarized DIS and the size of the constituent quark | |
| dc.type | text |