Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 34, No. 9, September 2003, page 4521


Probing Polarized Strangeness in the Proton: the Use of Heavy Quarks and the Renormalization Group

Steven D. Bass

Once heavy-quark corrections are take into account \nu p elastic scattering provides a complementary probe of polarized strangeness in the nucleon to measurements from inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic scattering. We review the different types of experiment and a recent NLO calculation of heavy-quark contributions to the weak neutral-current axial-charge (measurable in \nu p elastic scattering) performed using Witten's heavy-quark renormalization group method.

PACS numbers: 11.10.Hi, 12.15.Mm, 12.38.Cy, 12.39.Hg


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