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Spin and hard processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-01-23 v1

Abstract

It is argued that spin is a fundamental aspect of gauge theories at short distances. As a consequence there are characteristic helicity asymmetries in hard inclusive and exclusive reactions of which a few are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210229,
  title  = {Spin and hard processes},
  author = {P. Kroll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210229},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures (using LATEX with ws-procs9x6.cls), talk presented at the 2nd international symposium on the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule and the spin structure of the nucleon, Genova, July 2002