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Target Mass Effects in QCD Bjorken Sum Rule

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We investigate the target mass effects in QCD Bjorken sum rule. The magnitude of the target mass correction is estimated in a variety of methods employing positivity bound as well as the experimental data for the asymmetry parameters. It turns out that the target mass correction is sizable at low Q2Q^2 of the order of a few GeV2^2, where the QCD correction is significant. We show that there exists uncertainty due to target mass effects in determining the QCD effective coupling constant αs(Q2)\alpha_s(Q^2) from the Bjorken sum rule.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9409455,
  title  = {Target Mass Effects in QCD Bjorken Sum Rule},
  author = {Hiroyuki Kawamura and Tsuneo Uematsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9409455},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX, 10 pages, 2 figures (.ps files) appended after \end{document} as an uuencoded compressed tar file, KUCP-74

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