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QCD Constrains on the Shape of Polarized Quark and Gluon Distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

We develop simple analytic representations of the polarized quark and gluon distributions in the nucleon at low Q2Q^2 which incorporate general constraints obtained from the requirements of color coherence of gluon couplings at x0x \sim 0 and the helicity retention properties of perturbative QCD couplings at x1.x \sim 1. The unpolarized predictions are similar to the D0D_0' distributions given by Martin, Roberts, and Stirling. The predictions for the quark helicity distributions are compared with polarized structure functions measured by the E142 experiment at SLAC and the SMC experiment at CERN.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9401328,
  title  = {QCD Constrains on the Shape of Polarized Quark and Gluon Distributions},
  author = {Stanley J. Brodsky and Matthias Burkardt and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9401328},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Correct version of Fig. 1 added, LaTex, 27 pages, plus 4 figures