Determination of the Bjorken Sum and Strong Coupling from Polarized Structure Functions

Abstract

We present a NLO perturbative analysis of all available data on the polarized structure function g_1(x,Q^2) with the aim of making a quantitative test of the validity of the Bjorken sum rule, of measuring α_s, and of deriving helicity fractions. We take particular care over the small x extrapolation, since it is now known that Regge behaviour is unreliable at perturbative scales. For fixed α_s we find that if all the most recent data are included g_A=1.18\pm0.09, confirming the Bjorken sum rule at the 8% level. We further show that the value of α_s is now reasonably well constrained by scaling violations in the structure function data, despite the fact that it cannot yet be reliably fixed by the value of the Bjorken sum: our final result is α_s(m_Z) = 0.120+0.010-0.008. We also confirm earlier indications of a sizeable positive gluon polarization in the nucleon.

arXiv comment24 pages, 9 figures, plain LaTeX with epsfig. Final version, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B. Several typos corrected

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