Published February 1, 2003 | Version v1
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Can the polarization of the strange quarks in the proton be positive?

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Blvd. Tsarigradsko Chaussee 72, Sofia 1784 (Bulgaria)
  • 2. Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BW (United Kingdom)

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Recently, the HERMES Collaboration at DESY, using a leading order QCD analysis of their data on semi-inclusive deep inelastic production of charged hadrons, reported a marginally positive polarization for the strange quarks in the proton. We argue that a non-negative polarization is almost impossible

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 037503-037503.2
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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