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Mesonic Corrections to the Shape of Quark Distributions

F. M. Steffens, H. Holtmann, A. W. Thomas

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9508398

Abstract

We compute the full x - dependence of the proton and neutron spin structure functions in the MIT bag model, including the effect of gluon exchange and the meson cloud. Impressive agreement is found for x larger than 0.1, where polarised gluons are not expected to play a significant role.

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