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The full spin structure of quarks in the nucleon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss bounds on the distribution and fragmentation functions that appear at leading order in deep inelastic 1-particle inclusive leptoproduction or in Drell-Yan processes. These bounds simply follow from positivity of the quark-hadron scattering matrix elements and are an important guide in estimating the magnitude of the azimuthal and spin asymmetries in these processes. We focus on an example relevant for deep inelastic scattering at relatively low energies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005140,
  title  = {The full spin structure of quarks in the nucleon},
  author = {A. Bacchetta and M. Boglione and A. Henneman and P. J. Mulders},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005140},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages with figures, LaTex, uses epsfig.sty. Invited talk by P.J. Mulders at the workshop on Nucleon Structure in the High x-Bjorken Region (HiX2000), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; March 30 - April 1, 2000