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Determination of polarized parton distribution functions

M. Hirai, H. Kobayashi, M. Miyama

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0012280

Abstract

We study parametrization of polarized parton distribution functions in the αs leading order (LO) and in the next-to-leading order (NLO). From χ2 fitting to the experimental data on A1, optimum polarized distribution functions are determined. The quark spin content ΔΣis very sensitive to the small-x behavior of antiquark distributions which suggests that small-x data are needed for precise determination of ΔΣ. We propose three sets of distributions and also provide FORTRAN library for our distributions.

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