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Deep inelastic scattering from polarized spin-$1/2$ hadrons at low $x$ from string theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-11-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study polarized deep inelastic scattering of charged leptons from spin-1/21/2 hadrons at low values of the Bjorken parameter and large 't Hooft coupling in terms of the gauge/string theory duality. We calculate the structure functions from type IIB superstring theory scattering amplitudes. We discuss the role of the non-Abelian Chern-Simons term and the Pauli term from the five-dimensional SU(4)SU(4) gauged supergravity. Furthermore, the exponentially small-xx regime where Regge physics becomes important is analyzed in detail for the antisymmetric structure functions. In this case the holographic dual picture of the Pomeron exchange is realized by a Reggeized gauge field. We compare our results with experimental data of the proton antisymmetric structure function g1g_1, obtaining a very good level of agreement.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11540,
  title  = {Deep inelastic scattering from polarized spin-$1/2$ hadrons at low $x$ from string theory},
  author = {Nicolas Kovensky and Gustavo Michalski and Martin Schvellinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11540},
  year   = {2018}
}

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39 pages, 8 figures

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