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How Much of the Nucleon Spin is Carried by Glue?

Ian Balitsky, Xiangdong Ji

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9702277

Abstract

We estimate in the QCD sum rule approach the amount of the nucleon spin carried by the gluon angular momentum: the sum of the gluon spin and orbital angular momenta. The result indicates that gluons contribute at least one half of the nucleon spin at scale of 1 GeV2.

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