Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1995-11-16
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, plain TeX with epsf, 10 figures in compressed postscript. Table 2 updated incorporating a recent correction to the N
Scientific paper
We review recent developments in the theory and phenomenology of polarized structure functions. We summarize recent experimental data on the proton and deuteron structure function $g_1$, and their impact on the understanding of polarized sum rules. Specifically, we discuss how accurate measurements of the singlet and nonsinglet first moment of $g_1$ test perturbative and nonperturbative QCD, and critically examine the way these measurements are arrived at. We then discuss how the extraction of structure functions from the data can be improved by means of a theoretical analysis of their $x$ and $Q^2$ dependence, and how, conversely, experimental information on this dependence can be used to pin down the polarized parton content of the nucleon.
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