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First Simultaneous Extraction of Spin-Dependent Parton Distributions and Fragmentation Functions from a Global QCD
J J Ethier1,2, N Sato3, W Melnitchouk2
1College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
Abstract:
We perform the first global QCD analysis of polarized inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering and single-inclusive e^{+}e^{-} annihilation data, simultaneously fitting the parton distribution and fragmentation functions using the iterative Monte Carlo method. Without imposing SU(3) symmetry relations, we find the strange polarization to be very small, consistent with zero for both inclusive and semi-inclusive data, which provides a resolution to the strange quark polarization puzzle. The combined analysis also allows the direct extraction from data of the isovector and octet axial charges, and is consistent with a small SU(2) flavor asymmetry in the polarized sea.
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