The intrinsic charm contribution to the proton spin

Abstract

The charm quark contribution to the first moment of $g_1(x,Q^2)$ is calculated using a heavy mass expansion of the divergence of the singlet axial current. It is shown to be small.

arXiv commentLATEX, 6 pages

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