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Target Fragmentation at Polarized HERA: A Test of Universal Topological Charge Screening in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Topological charge screening has been proposed as the mechanism responsible for the anomalous suppression in the first moment of the polarized proton structure function -- the `proton spin' effect. An immediate consequence is that this suppression should be target-independent, since the screening is a fundamental property of the QCD vacuum. Here, we study the possibility of testing the target-independent suppression in semi-inclusive target fragmentation processes at polarized HERA.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9711353,
  title  = {Target Fragmentation at Polarized HERA: A Test of Universal Topological Charge Screening in QCD},
  author = {D. de Florian and G. M. Shore and G. Veneziano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9711353},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proceedings of the 1997 Workshop on `Physics with Polarized Protons at HERA', DESY-Hamburg, DESY-Zeuthen and CERN, March-September 1997