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On the Spin content of the Nucleon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

A QCD sum rule calculation of Balistky and Ji on the spin content of the nucleon is done with a different approach to the evaluation of the bilocal contributions and to the extraction of the nucleon pole residues. The result obtained is much more numerically stable which puts their conclusion that about half of the nucleon spin is carried by gluons on firmer ground.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9903225,
  title  = {On the Spin content of the Nucleon},
  author = {N. F. Nasrallah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9903225},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, two (eps) figure, minor corrections and one figure added