The polarised valence quark distribution from semi-inclusive DIS

The semi-inclusive difference asymmetry A^h+−h− for hadrons of opposite charge has been measured by the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The data were collected in the years 2002–2004 using a 160 GeV polarised muon beam scattered off a large polarised ⁶LiD target in the kinematic range 0.006<x<0.7 and 1<Q²<100 (GeV/c)². In leading order QCD (LO) the deuteron asymmetry A^h+−h− measures the valence quark polarisation and provides an evaluation of the first moment of Δu_v+Δd_v which is found to be equal to 0.40±0.07(stat.)±0.06(syst.) over the measured range of x at Q²=10 (GeV/c)². When combined with the first moment of previously measured on the same data, this result favours a non-symmetric polarisation of light quarks at a confidence level of two standard deviations, in contrast to the often assumed symmetric scenario .     

Polarized quark distributions in bound nucleon and polarized EMC effect in Thermodynamical Bag Model

The polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs) and nuclear structure functions are evaluated by the phenomenological Thermodynamical Bag Model for nuclear media ⁷Li and ²⁷Al. The Fermi statistical distribution function which includes the spin degree of freedom is used in this statistical model. We predict a sizeable polarized EMC effect. The results of quark spin sum and axial coupling constant of bound nucleons are compared with theoretical predictions of modified Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model by Bentz et al.     

The strange-sea quark spin distribution in the nucleon from inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering

We propose new method which allows determination of the strange-sea quark spin distribution in the nucleon through measurement of various inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic electron–proton or muon–proton reactions. It is shown, that using combinations of inclusive data and semi-inclusive data containing neutral pions in the final state, it is possible to extract the strange-sea quark spin distribution. Similar result can be obtained for charged pions and some other hadrons also.     

The nucleon quark distribution amplitude and its influence on theQ 2-behaviour of nucleon form factors

In a re-analysis of nucleon form factors in perturbative quantum chromodynamics we examine the -dependence of the nucleon quark distribution amplitude by means of some model distribution amplitudes. We point out some problems that arise in the determination of the -evolution of the distribution amplitude. Our suggestions to cure these problems are discussed and resulting nucleon quark distribution amplitudes are presented. These give reasonable agreement with the available data for the form factors.Work is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ga 153-13-1) and partially by NATO (0581/87)     

Retardation effects from quark confinement on low-energy nucleon dynamics

We investigate effects from quark confinement on low-energy nucleon dynamics. These effects are shown to give rise to a peculiar dynamical situation: Low-energy nucleon dynamics is not Hamiltonian and is governed by a nonlocal-in-time interaction operator. In the leading order of the two-nucleon EFT we show that after renormalization the nucleon dynamics is governed by the same interaction operator.     

Strange quark content in the nucleon

Though none of the experimental evidences for the strange quark contributions to nucleon properties is explained convincingly by an alternative, the recent experiments, even HAPPEX Collab. and A4 Collab., on a measurement of the parity-violating asymmetries show no strangeness in the proton. Despite this conclusion we demonstrate here no accidental compatibility of our theoretical predictions for nucleon strange form factors with some nonzero parity violation experimental results which strengthens our belief in the strangeness in the nucleon.     

The second moments of quark and gluon distribution functions in nucleon

The second moments of quark and gluon distribution functions in proton are calculated on the basis of the QCD sum rule approach. The results obtained are in a good agreement with the experimental data.     

The quark spin structure of the nucleon

Some non-perturbative aspects of the nucleon quark spin structure are reviewed. The first part is a brief summary of early theoretical developments in the field of polarized deep inelastic scattering of electrons on polarized nucleons and an illustration of the non-perturbative power of lattice QCD 25 years later. The second part is a short pedagogical introduction to the analysis of high energy scattering in the complex angular momentum plane, with particular emphasis on spin-dependent deep inelastic electron-nucleon scattering. The third part comprises a brief introduction to lattice QCD and its applications in the non-perturbative determination of the spin-dependent structure functions.     

Electromagnetic radii and quark structure of the nucleon

By using a diagrammatical technique it is shown that in scalar theories the stochastic quantization method of Parisi and Wu gives the usual perturbation series in Feynman diagrams.     

Exclusive electroproduction and the quark structure of the nucleon

The natural interpretation of deep inelastic scattering is in terms of hard scattering on QCD constituents of the target. We examine the relation between amplitudes measured in exclusive lepto-production and the quark content of the nucleon. We show that in the Bjorken limit, the natural interpretation of amplitudes measured in these hard exclusive processes is in terms of the quark content of the meson cloud and not the target itself. In this limit, the most efficient representation of these exclusive processes is in terms of leading Regge amplitudes.     

Phenomenological determination of polarized quark distributions in the nucleon

We present a fit to spin asymmetries which gives polarized quark distributions. These functions are closely related to the ones given by the Martin, Roberts and Stirling fit for unpolarized structure functions. The integrals of polarized distributions are discussed and compared with the corresponding quantities obtained from neutron and hyperon??-decay data. We use the combination of proton, neutron and deuteron spin asymmetries in order to determine the coefficients of our polarized quark distributions. Our fit shows that phenomenologically there is no need for taking polarized gluons into account.     

Phenomenological determination of polarized quark distributions in the nucleon

We present a fit to spin asymmetries which gives polarized quark distributions. These functions are closely related to the ones given by the Martin, Roberts and Stirling fit for unpolarized structure functions. The integrals of polarized distributions are discussed and compared with the corresponding quantities obtained from neutron and hyperonβ-decay data. We use the combination of proton, neutron and deuteron spin asymmetries in order to determine the coefficients of our polarized quark distributions. Our fit shows that phenomenologically there is no need for taking polarized gluons into account.     

Phenomenological determination of polarized quark distributions in the nucleon

We present a fit to spin asymmetries which gives polarized quark distributions. These functions are closely related to the ones given by the Martin, Roberts and Stirling fit for unpolarized structure functions. The integrals of polarized distributions are discussed and compared with the corresponding quantities obtained from neutron and hyperonβ-decay data. We use the combination of proton, neutron and deuteron spin asymmetries in order to determine the coefficients of our polarized quark distributions. Our fit shows that phenomenologically there is no need for taking polarized gluons into account. Work supported in part by the KBN-Grant 2-P302-143-06     

Evolution of high-mass diffraction from the light quark valence component of the Pomeron

We analyze the contribution from excitation of the \((q\bar q)(f\bar f), (q\bar q)g_1 \cdots g_n (f\bar f)\) Fock states of a photon to high-mass diffraction in DIS. We show that the large-Q² behavior of this contribution can be described by DLLA evolution from the nonperturbative \(f\bar f\) valence state of the pomeron. Although of higher order in pQCD, the new contribution to high-mass diffraction is comparable to that from the excitation of the \(q\bar qg\) Fock state of the photon.     

Determining the strange and antistrange quark distributions of the nucleon

The difference between the strange and antistrange quark distributions,δs(x) = s(x) ˉs(x),and the combination of light quark sea and strange quark sea,Δ(x) =ˉ d(x) + uˉ(x) s(x) ˉs(x),are originated from non-perturbative processes and can be calculated using non-perturbative models of the nucleon.We report calculations of δs(x) and Δ(x) using the meson cloud model.Combining our calculations of Δ(x) with relatively well known light antiquark distributions obtained from global analysis of available experimental data,we estimate the total strange sea distributions of the nucleon.     

A note on the massive quark matter phase

Using an equation of state which is based on a many-body treatment of a constituent quark model with confinement interaction, the phase transition to a massive quark phase is studied. It is found that in the case of bag constantsB ^1/4>200 MeV and baryon number density of about 5ρ₀ a phase of massive deconfined quarks may become stable.     

Excitation of negative parity nucleon isobars in the quark model

We discuss recent measurements of excitation of higher nucleon isobars in both pp and πp collisions, together with speculations that have been made that their excitation is due to a diffraction dissociation process. We show how this mechanism can be related to recent models ascribing such high energy direct reactions to sums of quark-quark interactions, together with suggested assignments for higher isobars in the quark model: if these assumptions are valid, including the L-excitation assignments to the isobars, the quark-quark diffraaction scattering must then include a contribution involving spin-flip. This contribution has some consequences which can be used to check these models and the L = 1 assignments to the negative parity isobars. It is also noted how such a spin-flip contribution could be involved in other processes, including one, production of the A₂ meson, in which its effects may already have been observed.