Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-08-28
Nuovo Cim. A110 (1997) 757-766
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages, latex, 12 figures
Scientific paper
We investigate the possibility to draw conclusions on the sign of the spin-dependent gluon distribution, $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$, from existing polarized DIS data. The spin-dependent parton distributions $\Delta u_v, \Delta d_v, \Delta {\bar u}, \Delta {\bar d}, \Delta {s}$, and $\Delta G$ are constructed in the framework of a phenomenological procedure taking into account some assumptions on signs of valence and sea parton distributions motivated by 't Hooft's mechanism of quark-quark interaction induced by instantons. The axial gluon anomaly and data on integral quark contributions to the proton spin, $\Delta \tilde u, \Delta \tilde d$, and $\Delta \tilde s$, are also taken into account. Predictions for the $x$- and $Q^2$-dependencies of the polarized proton and neutron structure functions, $g_1^p$ and $g_1^n$, are compared to experimental data. It is shown that the neutron structure function, $g_1^n$, is especially sensitive to the sign of $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$. The results of our analysis supports the conclusion that this sign should be positive.
Nowak Wolf-Dieter
Sidorov Aleksander V.
Tokarev M. V.
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