Testing target independence of the `proton spin' effect in semiinclusive deep inelastic scattering

Aug, 1997
22 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 516 (1998) 333-353
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-97-206,
  • SWAT-97-159

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Abstract:
A natural consequence of the composite operator propagator-vertex description of deep inelastic scattering developed by the authors is that the anomalous suppression observed in the flavour singlet contribution to the first moment of the polarised proton structure function g1pg_1^p (the `proton spin' problem) is not a special property of the proton structure but is a target independent effect which can be related to an anomalous suppression in the QCD topological susceptibility. In this paper, it is shown how this target independent mechanism can be tested in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering in which a pion or D meson carrying a large target energy fraction zz is detected in the target fragmentation region.
Note:
  • 23 pages, TeX, includes 11 ps figures Report-no: CERN-TH/97-206, SWAT 97/159
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • electron p: inclusive reaction
  • p: structure function
  • structure function: polarization
  • moment
  • sum rule
  • vertex function
  • electron hadron: deep inelastic scattering
  • target: dependence
  • symmetry: SU(3)