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Title: Moments of generalized parton distribution functions and the nucleon spin contents

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)

It is shown that, based only upon empirically and semiempirically known facts together with some reasonable theoretical postulates, we are inevitably led to a novel conclusion that the quark orbital angular momentum carries nearly half of the total nucleon spin at the low energy scale around Q{sup 2}{approx_equal}(600 MeV){sup 2}. We also perform an explicit model analysis to find that the quark spin fraction {delta}{sigma} is extremely sensitive to the pion mass, which may resolve the discrepancy between the observation and the prediction of the recent lattice QCD simulation carried out in the heavy pion region.

OSTI ID:
20713631
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 72, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.074006; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English