Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2005-09-04
Mod.Phys.Lett.A20:2745-2766,2005
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
21 pages, 4 figures, review for Modern Physics Letters A. Minor modifications in text and improved quality for one figure. Cor
Scientific paper
10.1142/S021773230501875X
The nucleon has been used as a laboratory to investigate its own spin structure and Quantum Chromodynamics. New experimental data on nucleon spin structure at low to intermediate momentum transfers combined with existing high momentum transfer data offer a comprehensive picture of the transition region from the {\it confinement} regime of the theory to its {\it asymptotic freedom} regime. Insight for some aspects of the theory is gained by exploring lower moments of spin structure functions and their corresponding sum rules (i.e. the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn, Bjorken and Burkhardt-Cottingham). These moments are expressed in terms of an operator product expansion using quark and gluon degrees of freedom at moderately large momentum transfers. The sum rules are verified to a good accuracy assuming that no singular behavior of the structure functions is present at very high excitation energies. The higher twist contributions have been examined through the moments evolution as the moments evolution as the momentum transfer varies from higher to lower values. Furthermore, QCD-inspired low-energy effective theories, which explicitly include chiral symmetry breaking, are tested at low momentum transfers. The validity of these theories is further examined as the momentum transfer increases to moderate values. It is found that chiral perturbation calculations agree reasonably well with the first moment of the spin structure function $g_1$ at momentum transfer of 0.1 GeV$^2$ but fail to reproduce the neutron data in the case of the generalized polarizability $\delta_{LT}$.
Chen Jen-Ping
Deur Alexandre
Meziani Zein-Eddine
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