Is nucleon spin structure inconsistent with the constituent quark model?

Xiang-Song Chen, Fan Wang

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1998 · 29 citations · 27 references

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Proton spin structure discovered in polarized deep inelastic scattering is shown to be consistent with the valence-sea quark mixing constituent quark model. The relativistic correction and quark-antiquark pair creation (annihilation) terms inherently involved in the quark axial vector current suppress the quark spin contribution to the proton spin. The relativistic quark orbital angular momentum provides compensative terms to keep the proton spin $\frac{1}{2}$ untouched. The tensor charge of the proton is predicted to have a similar but smaller suppression. An explanation on why baryon magnetic moments can be parametrized by the naive quark model spin content as well as the spin structure discovered in polarized deep inelastic scattering is given.

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