Next-to-leading Order Evolution of Transversity Distributions and Soffer's Inequality
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-05-05 v2
Abstract
We present a calculation of the two-loop splitting functions for the evolution of the twist-2 `transversity' parton densities of transversely polarized nucleons. We study the implications of our results for Soffer's inequality for the case of valence quark densities.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9706511,
title = {Next-to-leading Order Evolution of Transversity Distributions and Soffer's Inequality},
author = {W. Vogelsang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9706511},
year = {2011}
}
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23 Pages, LaTeX, 2 figures as eps files, final, slightly modified version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D