The Proton Spin Structure in a Light-Cone Qaurk-Spectator-Diquark Model

Abstract

It is shown that the proton spin problem raised by the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule violation does not in conflict with the SU(6) quark model, provided that the relativistic effect from the quark transversal motions, the flavor asymmetry between the $u$ and $d$ valence quarks, and the intrinsic quark-antiquark pairs generated by the non-perturbative meson-baryon fluctuations of the nucleon sea are taken into account. The meson-baryon fluctuations of the nucleon sea provide a consistent picture for connecting the proton spin structure with a number of other anomalies observed in the proton's structure, such as the flavor asymmetry of the nucleon sea implied by the violation of the Gottfried sum rule and the discrepancy between two different measurements of the strange quark distributions in the nucleon sea.