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It is shown that the proton "spin crisis'' or "spin puzzle" can be understood by the relativistic effect of quark transversal motions due to the Melosh-Wigner rotation. The quark helicity $\Delta q$ measured in polarized deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Bo-Qiang Ma

We perform a global parton analysis of deep inelastic and related hard-scattering data, including ${\cal O}(\alpha_{\rm QED})$ corrections to the parton evolution. Although the quality of the fit is essentially unchanged, there are two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 A. D. Martin , R. G. Roberts , W. J. Stirling , R. S. Thorne

We present the first simultaneous global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions alongside their spin-averaged counterparts and pion, kaon, and unidentified hadron fragmentation functions. This analysis includes all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-08 C. Cocuzza , W. Melnitchouk , A. Metz , N. Sato

Optimum nuclear parton distributions are determined by an analysis of muon and electron deep inelastic scattering data. Assuming simple A dependence and polynomial functions of x and 1-x for nuclear modification of parton distributions, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , M. Miyama

Parton distributions are constructed in a statistical physical picture of the nucleon. The chiral properties of QCD lead to strong relations between quarks and antiquarks distributions and the importance of the Pauli exclusion principle is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Soffer

We have made next to leading order QCD fit to the deep inelastic spin asymmetries on nucleons and we determined polarised quark and gluon densities. The functional form for such distributions was inspired by the Martin, Roberts and Stirling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislaw Tatur , Jan Bartelski , Miroslaw Kurzela

In order to obtain polarised parton densities we have made next to leading order QCD fit using experimental data on deep inelastic structure functions on nucleons. This fit is compared with the updated fit to coresponding spin asymmetries.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jan Bartelski , Stanislaw Tatur

Optimum nuclear parton distributions are obtained by analyzing available experimental data on electron and muon deep inelastic scattering (DIS). The distributions are given at Q^2=1 GeV^2 with a number of parameters, which are determined by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , M. Miyama

We consider the extension of the statistical parton distributions to include their transverse momentum dependence, by using two different methods, one is based on our quantum statistical approach, the other on a relativistic covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-28 Claude Bourrely , Franco Buccella , Jacques Soffer

We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 C. Cocuzza , N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , N. Sato , A. W. Thomas

In this paper polarized valon distribution is derived from unpolarized valon distribution. In driving polarized valon distribution some unknown parameters exist which must be determined by fitting to experimental data. Here we have used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali N. Khorramian , A. Mirjalili , S. Atashbar Tehrani

We present parton distribution functions which include a quantitative estimate of its uncertainties. The parton distribution functions are optimized with respect to deep inelastic proton data, expressing the uncertainties as a density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter T. Giele , Stephane A. Keller , David A. Kosower

We recall how parton distributions are constructed in a statistical physical picture of the nucleon. The chiral properties of QCD lead to strong relations between quarks and antiquarks distributions and the importance of the Pauli exclusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Jacques Soffer

The theoretical foundations of the quantum statistical approach to parton distributions are reviewed together with the phenomenological motivations from a few specific features of Deep Inelastic Scattering data. The chiral properties of QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Jacques Soffer , Claude Bourrely , Franco Buccella

The flavor-dependent valence, sea quark and antiquark spin distributions can be determined separately from theoretical assumptions and experimental data. We have determined the valence distributions using the Bjorken sum rule and have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Gordon P. Ramsey

Spin-dependent parton distributions in the polarized virtual photon are investigated in QCD up to the next-to-leading order (NLO). In the case $\Lambda^2 \ll P^2 \ll Q^2$, where $-Q^2$ ($-P^2$) is the mass squared of the probe (target)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ken Sasaki , Tsuneo Uematsu

We extend the MRS(A) set of parton distributions, which provides an up-to-date description of the structure of the proton probed by hard interactions, into the region of $Q^2$ below $5\ {\rm GeV}^2$. After physically-motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 AD Martin , WJ Stirling , RG Roberts

We check the $u$ and $d$ quark contributions to the spin content of the $\Lambda$ by means of the $q\to\Lambda$ fragmentation and find that the $u$ and $d$ quarks of the $\Lambda$ are likely positively polarized. The parton distributions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 Jian-Jun Yang

The twenty years since the announcement of the proton spin crisis by the European Muon Collaboration has seen tremendous progress in our knowledge of the distribution of spin within the proton. The problem is reviewed, beginning with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 A. W. Thomas , Jefferson Lab

We compare the parton distributions deduced in the framework of a quantum statistical approach for both the longitudinal and transverse degrees of freedom with the unpolarized distributions measured at Hera and with the polarized ones…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Franco Buccella , Sozha Sohaily