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The spin content of the proton

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-08-24 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Considerable progress has been made in our knowledge of the spin distribution within the proton. The recently measured limits on polarized gluons in the proton suggest polarized gluons contribute very modestly to the proton spin. We will show that a modern, relativistic and chirally symmetric description of the nucleon structure naturally explain the current proton spin data. Most of the "missing" spin is carried by confined quark and antiquarks' angular momentum.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2468,
  title  = {The spin content of the proton},
  author = {F. Myhrer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2468},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure, invited talk at SPIN2008