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Positivity of NLO Spin-Dependent Parton Distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss the positivity of the hadron density matrix in QCD. This basic property is shown to be preserved by QCD evolution, provided the relation ΔPij(z)Pij|\Delta P_{ij}(z)| \leq P_{ij} is valid for all kernels for z<1z < 1, and the usual "+" prescription is used. We comment on the positivity restrictions for the choice of the NLO factorization scheme for the evolution of the spin-dependent parton distributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9803238,
  title  = {Positivity of NLO Spin-Dependent Parton Distributions},
  author = {C. Bourrely and E. Leader and O. V. Teryaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9803238},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, LateX, 1 figure