Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-04-10
Int.J.Mod.Phys.E18:1116-1134,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Lectures at Aligarh University (4th DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron Physics, Feb 18-21, 2008
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0218301309013403
Since the announcement of the proton spin crisis by the European Muon Collaboration there has been considerable progress in unravelling the distribution of spin and orbital angular momentum within the proton. We review the current status of the problem, showing that not only have strong upper limits have been placed on the amount of polarized glue in the proton but that 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-perturbative 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. The consequences of this explanation for the presence of orbital angular momentum on quarks and gluons is reviewed and comparison made with recent results from lattice QCD and experimental data.
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