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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458747703321

Autore

Bass Steven D

Titolo

The spin structure of the proton [[electronic resource] /] / Steven D. Bass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008

ISBN

1-281-91881-4

9786611918811

981-270-948-7

Descrizione fisica

xi, 199 p. : ill

Disciplina

539.7/2123

Soggetti

Protons

Nuclear spin

Quark models

Quantum chromodynamics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Spin experiments and data -- 3. Dispersion relations and spin sum rules -- 4. g1 spin sum rules -- 5. Fixed poles -- 6. The axial anomaly, gluon topology and g(0)A -- 7. Chiral symmetry and axial U(1) dynamics -- 8. QCD inspired models of the proton spin problem -- 9. The spin-flavour structure of the proton -- 10. QCD fits to g1 data -- 11. Polarized quark distributions -- 12. Polarized glue ... -- 13. Transversity -- 14. Deeply virtual comptons scattering and exclusive processes -- 15. Polarized photon structure functions -- 16. Conclusion and open questions: how does the proton spin?