How Much of the Nucleon Spin is Carried by Glue?

Preprint

10 February 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9702277

Abstract

We estimate in the QCD sum rule approach the amount of the nucleon spin carried by the gluon angular momentum: the sum of the gluon spin and orbital angular momenta. The result indicates that gluons contribute at least one half of the nucleon spin at scale of 1 GeV^2.

Keywords

NUCLEON SPIN CARRIED
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
ORBITAL ANGULAR
RULE APPROACH
GLUON
QCD

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 79 (7), 1225.

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