Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-05-28
Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.61:219-228,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Invited lecture presented at Erice: International School of Nuclear Physics, Course 29, Quarks in Hadrons and Nuclei (Septembe
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.ppnp.2007.12.039
The twenty years since the announcement of the proton spin crisis by the European Muon Collaboration has seen tremendous progress in our knowledge of the distribution of spin within the proton. The problem is reviewed, beginning with the original data and the suggestion that polarized gluons may play a crucial role in resolving the problem through the U(1) axial anomaly. The discussion continues to the present day where not only have strong limits have been placed on the amount of polarized glue in the proton but the experimental determination of the spin content has become much more precise. It is now clear that the origin of the discrepancy between experiment and the naive expectation of the fraction of spin carried by the quarks and anti-quarks in the proton lies in the non-perturabtive structure of the proton. We explain how the features expected in a modern, relativistic and chirally symmetric description of nucleon structure naturally explain the current data.
Lab Jefferson
Thomas Anthony W.
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