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Can the polarization of the strange quarks in the proton be positive ?

E. Leader, D. B. Stamenov

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0211083

Abstract

Recently, the HERMES Collaboration at DESY, using a leading order QCD analysis of their data on semi-inclusive deep inelastic production of charged hadrons, reported a marginally positive polarization for the strange quarks in the proton. We argue that a non-negative polarization is almost impossible.

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