WHERE DOES THE PROTON REALLY GET ITS SPIN

Authors
JAFFE RL
Citation
Rl. Jaffe, WHERE DOES THE PROTON REALLY GET ITS SPIN, Physics today, 48(9), 1995, pp. 24-30
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics today → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319228
Volume
48
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
24 - 30
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9228(1995)48:9<24:WDTPRG>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Polarized scattering experiments reveal that quarks contribute surpris ingly little to the proton's spin. This 'spin crisis' is doing much to clarify the subtle departures of the underlying field theory from the naive quark model.