A Possible Resolution of the Strange Quark Polarization Puzzle ?

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2011-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5979v2

Phys.Rev.D84:014002,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

7 pages, 4 figures, a version to be published in Phys. Rev. D: negligible changes in the text, notations for curves in Fig. 3

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.014002

The strange quark polarization puzzle, i.e. the contradiction between the negative polarized strange quark density obtained from analyses of inclusive DIS data and the positive values obtained from combined analyses of inclusive and semi-inclusive SIDIS data using de Florian et. al. (DSS) fragmentation functions, is discussed. To this end the results of a new combined NLO QCD analysis of the polarized inclusive and semi-inclusive DIS data, using the Hirai et. al. (HKNS) fragmentation functions, are presented. It is demonstrated that the polarized strange quark density is very sensitive to the kaon fragmentation functions, and if the set of HKNS fragmentation functions is used, the polarized strange quark density obtained from the combined analysis turns out to be negative and well consistent with values obtained from the pure DIS analyses.

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