Strangeness Contribution to the Polarized Nucleon Structure Function $g_1(x)$

Abstract

The three flavor version of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio chiral soliton model for baryons is employed to calculate the twist-2 contribution to the polarized nucleon structure function $g_1(x)$. In particular the role of the strange quark degree of freedom as a collective excitation of the chiral soliton is investigated in the context of flavor symmetry breaking. The model prediction for $g_1(x)$ refers to a low momentum scale $Q_0^2$. The leading order corrections to the scale dependence is computed along the QCD evolution program allowing to compare with data from SLAC.