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On the Role of Higher Twist in Polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The higher twist corrections hN(x)/Q2h^N(x)/Q^2 to the spin dependent proton and neutron structure functions g1N(x,Q2)g_1^N(x, Q^2) are extracted in a model independent way from experimental data on g1Ng_1^N and found to be non-negligible. It is shown that the NLO QCD polarized parton densities determined from the data on g1, including higher twist effects, are in good agreement with those found earlier from our analysis of the data on g1/F1 and A1 where higher twist effects are negligible. On the contrary, the LO QCD polarized parton densities obtained from the data on g1, including higher twist, differ significantly from our previous results.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212085,
  title  = {On the Role of Higher Twist in Polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering},
  author = {E. Leader and A. V. Sidorov and D. B. Stamenov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212085},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, latex, 6 figures, final version which will be published in Phys. Rev. D, fig. 5 is changed, misprints in Table 2 are removed