Correlator of topological charge densities at low q(2) in QCD: Connection with proton spin problem

Authors
Citation
Bl. Ioffe, Correlator of topological charge densities at low q(2) in QCD: Connection with proton spin problem, APH NS-HEAV, 9(1), 1999, pp. 29-48
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ACTA PHYSICA HUNGARICA NEW SERIES-HEAVY ION PHYSICS
ISSN journal
12197580 → ACNP
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
29 - 48
Database
ISI
SICI code
1219-7580(1999)9:1<29:COTCDA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The vacuum correlator of topological charge densities chi(q(2)) at low q(2) in QCD is discussed: its value chi(0) and first derivative chi'(0) at q(2) = 0 and the contributions of pseudoscalar quasi-Goldstone bosons to chi(q2 ) at low q(2). The QCD sum rule [1], giving the connection of chi'(0) (for massless quarks) with the part of the proton spin Sigma, carried by u, d, s quarks, is presented. From the requirement of self-consistence of the sum rule the values of chi'(0) and Sigma were found. The same value of chi'(0) follows also from the experimental data on Sigma. The contributions of pi a nd eta to chi(q(2)) are calculated based on low-energy theorems. In such ca lculations the pi - eta mixing, expressed in terms of quark mass ratios, is of importance.