Next-to-leading Order Evolution of Transversity Distributions and Soffer's Inequality

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6 November 1997

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9706511

Abstract

We present a calculation of the two-loop splitting functions for the evolution of the twist-2 `transversity' parton densities of transversely polarized nucleons. We study the implications of our results for Soffer's inequality for the case of valence quark densities.

Keywords

TRANSVERSITY DISTRIBUTIONS
SOFFER'S INEQUALITY
ORDER EVOLUTION
LEADING ORDER
POLARIZED
TWO LOOP
TWIST

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Version 1, 1997-06-26, ArXiv
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Published version: Physical Review D, 57 (3), 1886.

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