Positivity Constraints for Spin-Dependent Parton Distributions
- 20 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (8) , 1292-1294
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.74.1292
Abstract
We derive new positivity constraints on the spin-dependent structure functions of the nucleon. These model-independent results reduce considerably their domain of allowed values, in particular, for the chiral-odd parton distribution .
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