Polarized Parton Distributiions and Light-Front Dynamics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We present a consistent calculation of the structure functions within a light-front constituent quark model of the nucleon. Relativistic effects and the relevance of the covariance constraints are analyzed for both polarized and unpolarized parton distributions. Various models, which differ in their gluonic structure at the hadronic scale, are investigated. The results of the full covariant calculation are compared with those of a non-relativistic approximation to show the structure and magnitude of the differences.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808201,
title = {Polarized Parton Distributiions and Light-Front Dynamics},
author = {P. Faccioli and M. Traini and V. Vento},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808201},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
31 pages, 9 figures, major revision