First Simultaneous Extraction of Spin-Dependent Parton Distributions and Fragmentation Functions from a Global QCD Analysis
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
In this paper, we perform the first global QCD analysis of polarized inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and single-inclusive $e^+e^-$ annihilation data, simultaneously fitting the parton distribution and fragmentation functions using the iterative Monte Carlo method. Without imposing SU(3) symmetry relations, we find the strange polarization to be very small, consistent with zero for both inclusive and semi-inclusive data, which provides a resolution to the strange quark polarization puzzle. Finally, the combined analysis also allows the direct extraction from data of the isovector and octet axial charges, and is consistent with a small SU(2) flavor asymmetry in the polarized sea.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- Contributing Organization:
- Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177; FG-04ER41309
- OSTI ID:
- 1395951
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1394857
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-THY-17-2464; DOE/OR/23177-4135; arXiv:1705.05889
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 13; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Cited by: 122 works
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