核子自旋结构的实验研究进展

本文主要介绍对核子纵向自旋结构函数的实验研究进展。首先简要介绍核子自旋结构的部分理论模型,包括朴素的部份子模型和QCD中的夸克–部份子模型,同时简要介绍标度律和标度律的破坏及其原因;接着介绍实验研究的理论基础,包括弱作用和轻子–核子的深度非弹散射中轴流的作用和几个关于核子自旋结构的求和规则和它们的QCD修正;且简要介绍深度非弹散射实验的研究方法,包括单举测量、半单举和遍举测量。最后,详细介绍实验研究进展,包括对质子和中子的纵向自旋结构函数的测量,国际上几个主要实验室在不同的能量下,在用不同的靶、不同的束流对不同范围的Bjorken变量x和不同的四动量转移范围Q2下的实验、特点及其结果。最后简略介绍了我国实验物理工作者在该领域的国际合作组的部分工作。     

核子自旋结构

简要介绍了夸克的发现、核子的夸克模型 ,详细讨论了夸克模型中核子内夸克自旋结构和极化轻子-核子深度非弹散射测量出的夸克自旋结构中的矛盾 .指出这个矛盾是由于对夸克自旋理解的混淆.最后还讨论了规范不变性和正则量子化两大物理学原则在夸克、电子轨道角动量上出现的矛盾. A simple introduction of the discovery of quark and the constituent quark model of nucleon have been given. The contradiction between the quark spin structure of nucleon of the constituent quark model and the measured one in the polarized deep inelastic lepton nucleon scattering has been explained in detail. It is elucidated that the so called “proton spin crisis” is due to quark spin confusion. The incompatibility between the requirement of gauge invariance and ...     

核子结构

本文介绍了半个世纪来核子结构研究的重要进展，着重介绍了近十年来轻子核子极化深度非弹散射实验导致的有关核子自旋、磁矩结构的新进展，还介绍了当前核子结构研究中的一些重要问题。     

核子结构

本文介绍了半个世纪来核子结构研究的重要进展 ,着重介绍了近十年来轻子核子极化深度非弹散射实验导致的有关核子自旋、磁矩结构的新进展 ,还介绍了当前核子结构研究中的一些重要问题。     

核子中夸克的极化

根据强子张量和向前的虚光子康普顿散射振幅之间的关系,用虚光子总吸收截面表达了核子的自旋结构函数和它的第一矩. 在夸克模型中计算了小动量转移区的虚光子的总吸收截面,进而得到了第一矩的理论结果,导出了质子中夸克的极化. 合理地解释了EMC和SLAC的实验结果.     

非微扰夸克传播子与核子结构函数的非平庸Q2依赖性研究

考虑最低维非微扰效应即夸克凝聚和胶子凝聚对夸克传播子的贡献,在链近似下,计算了QCD非微扰夸克传播子; 基于所获得的非微扰夸克传播子,对核子结构函数中的非微扰效应进行了分析,给出了核子结构函数的非平庸Q²依赖性.     

核子中奇异夸克分布不对称性与轻味夸克碎裂效应

核子中奇异－反奇异夸克分布的不对称性是核子结构研究中的重要非微扰效应, 然而至今未被实验所直接检验.为了探讨测量这种奇异分布不对称性的有效方法,考察了轻味夸克碎裂效应对测量奇异分布不对称性的影响.建议通过直接测量高能中微子和反中微子的带电流深度非弹散射中的带电和中性D介子的微分截面来测量奇异分布的不对称性.这种方法能够使奇异分布不对称性与轻味夸克碎裂的效应相分离.     

极化海夸克对激发对核子的自旋相关性质的影响

分析各种极化的海夸克对对核子的自旋相关性质的作用. 并试图改进传统模型对质子自旋性质的计算.     

万亿摄氏度下烹煮夸克汤：核物质相结构和量子色动力学相变临界点的实验研究

高温高密核物质相结构是核物理研究领域的热点和前沿。量子色动力学(QCD)相变临界点的实验确认将是探索核物质相结构的里程碑,具有重要科学意义。为了在这一具有潜在重大发现的研究方向上占据领先地位、取得突破,各国纷纷建造大型加速器以及粒子探测器,开展重离子碰撞实验,其主要目标就是从实验上探索高温高密核物质相结构、寻找QCD相变临界点。文章总结了近年来相对论重离子碰撞中核物质相结构及QCD临界点的实验研究进展,并对未来探索高重子密度区核物质相结构、寻找QCD临界点的重要实验装置做了展望。     

夸克的横向性分布与核子张量荷

夸克的横向性分布的一次矩定义了核子张量荷. 核子张量荷也可用张量流算符在核子态的矩阵元定义,由此用量子色动力学求和规则、有效理论和模型计算了核子张量荷. 对研究核子性质及强子物理的自洽非微扰途径问题也作了简要讨论. The first moment of quark transversity distribution defines the tensor charge of nucleon. The tensor charge of nucleon can also be defined as the forward matrix element of the tensor current in the nucleon state，which is used to study the nucleon’s tensor charge in terms of quantum color dynamics(QCD) sum rule approach， the effective theory and model. A consistent nonperturbative approach to study nucleon property and hadronic physics is also discussed.     

Recent results on nucleon spin structure study at RHIC

Both the PHENIX and STAR experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory are running polarized proton–proton collisions at s= 200 and 500 GeV. The main goal of the RHIC spin physics program is to gain deeper insight into the spin structure of the nucleon. We will give an overview of recent spin results from RHIC, particularly the study of gluon polarization via jet/hadron production and sea quark polarization via W boson production in longitudinally polarized proton–proton collisions.     

Contributions of qqqq(q) components to nucleon spin structure

The spin structure of nucleons is presented in the framework of an extended quark model which in addition to the conventional qqq structure also takes into account qqqq(q) admixtures in the nucleon wave functions, where the qqqq(q) components are in colored quark cluster configurations. The axial vector weak coupling constant and spin distributions for polarized nucleons as well as spin content are obtained for the lowest positive parity qqqq(q) configurations in flavor-spin dependent interaction. In particular, the contributions of the down and strange quarks to the proton spin and the sum rule for polarized neutron are negative, in agreement with recent experiments.     

Quark distributions in nuclei and nuclear effects on nucleon structure functions

Extended quark distribution functions are presented obtained by fitting a large amount of experi-mental data of the ι-A DIS process on the basis of an improved nuclear density model. The experimental data of ι-A DIS processes with A≥ 3 in the region 0.0010 ≤ x ≤ 0.9500 are quite satisfactorily described by using the extended formulae. Our knowledge of the influence of nuclear matter on the quark distributions is deepened.     

Quark distributions in nuclei and nuclear effects on nucleon structure functions

Extended quark distribution functions are presented obtained by fitting a large amount of experimental data of the l-A DIS process on the basis of an improved nuclear density model. The experimental data of l-A DIS processes with A≥3 in the region 0.0010≤x≤0.9500 are quite satisfactorily described by using the extended formulae. Our knowledge of the influence of nuclear matter on the quark distributions is deepened.     

Quark-hadron duality of nucleon spin structure function

Bloom-Gilman quark-hadron duality of nuclear spin structure function is studied by comparing the integral of g₁ from perturbative QCD prediction in the scaling region to the moment of g₁ in the resonance region. The spin structure function in the resonance region is estimated by the parametrization forms of non-resonance background and of resonance contributions. The uncertainties of our calculations due to those parametrization forms are discussed. Moreover, the effect of the (1232)-resonance in the first resonance region and the role of the resonances in the second resonance region are explicitly shown. Elastic peak contribution to the duality is also analyzed.     

Parton distributions,small-x physics and the spin structure of the nucleon

Several theoretical aspects in leading (1-loop) and higher (2-loop) order as well as various approaches of extracting leading twist-2 parton distributions from structure function measurements are discussed and summarized. Their implications for the small-x region (x⩽10⁻²) are analyzed and compared with alternative approaches where higher twist contributions (‘fans’) are added to the twist-2 LO terms in the evolution equations. The second part of these lectures deals with longitudinally polarized parton distributions related to the structure functiong ₁, in particular with various scenarios to explain the total spin structure of nucleons, including the gluon anomaly as well. Specific (realistic) tests for discriminating between these alternatives are discussed as well asx-dependent expectations, in particular for neutron targets in connection with the Bjorken sum rule. Furthermore, various theoretical expectations and sum rules for the transverse (chiral-even) structure functiong ₂ are presented and very recent developments of transverse chiral-odd (‘transversity’) distributions are briefly discussed.     

How unitarity imposes a steep small-x rise of spin structure function gLT=g1+g2 and breaking of DIS sum rules

We derive a unitarity relationship between the spin structure function g_LT(x,Q²)=g₁(x,Q²)+g₂(x,Q²), the LT interference diffractive structure function and the spin-flip coupling of the pomeron to nucleons. Our diffractive mechanism gives rise to a dramatic small-x rise

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, where δ_g is an exponent of small-x rise of the unpolarized gluon density in the proton at a moderate hard scale for light flavour contribution and large hard scale for heavy flavour contribution. It invalidates the Burkhardt–Cottingham sum rule. The found small-x rise of diffraction driven g_LT(x,Q²) is steeper than given by the Wandzura–Wilczek relation under conventional assumptions on small-x behaviour of g₁(x,Q²).     

Study of nucleon spin-dependent properties in the resonance region

In this paper, the spin-dependent structure functions of nucleon g ₁, and photoabsorption cross sections σ_1/2, σ_3/2 and σ_T in the resonance region are estimated based on the constituent quark model and the properties of the five phenomenological Breit-Wigner resonances P ₃₃(1232), S ₁₁(1535), D ₁₃(1520), P ₁₁(1440), and F ₁₅(1680). Our results are compared to the recent E143 data of the polarized structure functions g ₁(W ², Q ²) at points Q ²=0.5 GeV² and Q ²=1.2 GeV² and the data of the total inclusive photoabsorption cross sections. Received: 7 October 1997