Published September 22, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

The spin and flavor dependence of parton distribution functions

  • 1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
  • 2. Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA). Dept. of Physics
  • 3. Adelaide Univ. (Australia). Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics

Description

Gluon exchange in QCD is shown to lead to systematic flavour-and spin-dependent distortion of quark distribution functions. We relate the Δ-nucleon mass difference, the ratio of neutron and proton inelastic structure functions and the deep inelastic polarisation asymmetries. Excellent agreement is found with existing data and predictions are made for the polarised neutron asymmetry at x> or approx.0.2. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
212
Journal Issue
2
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
227-230
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA