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Ke Yang1, Tianbo Liu2,3, Peng Sun4,5
1Peking University, School of Physics, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
We report on the first global analysis of transverse-momentum dependent helicity distributions of the proton. The analysis is performed at next-to-leading order with the evolution factor at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy. Nonzero signals are determined for up and down quarks, and their k_{T}-integrated polarization is consistent with analyses in collinear factorization, while the distributions of other flavors are loosely constrained by existing data. With increasing transverse momentum, quarks at large x become less polarized while those at small x become more polarized.
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