Gluon polarization in the proton
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-10-25 v1
Abstract
We combine heavy-quark renormalization group arguments with our understanding of the nucleon's wavefunction to deduce a bound on the gluon polarization Delta g in the proton. The bound is consistent with the values extracted from spin experiments at COMPASS and RHIC.
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@article{arxiv.1110.5160,
title = {Gluon polarization in the proton},
author = {Steven D. Bass and Andrew Casey and Anthony W. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.5160},
year = {2011}
}
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4 pages