Statistical description of the proton spin with a large gluon helicity distribution
arXiv:1408.7057 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.044
Abstract
The quantum statistical parton distributions approach proposed more than one decade ago is revisited by considering a larger set of recent and accurate Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) experimental results. It enables us to improve the description of the data by means of a new determination of the parton distributions. We will see that a large gluon polarization emerges, giving a significant contribution to the proton spin.
11 pages, 4 figures
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