Progress on Constraining the Strange Quark Contribution to the Nucleon Spin

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Authors: Stephen Pate, V. Papavassiliou, J.P. Schaub, D.P. Trujillo, M.V. Ivanov, M.B. Barbaro, C. Giusti
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Abstract

We report on a global fit of neutral-current elastic (NCE) neutrino-scattering data and parity-violating electron-scattering (PVES) data with the goal of determining the strange quark contribution to the vector and axial form factors of the proton. Knowledge of the strangeness contribution to the axial form factor, $G_A^s(Q^2)$, at low $Q^2$ will reveal the strange quark contribution to the nucleon spin, as $G_A^s(Q^2=0)=\Delta s$. Previous fits [1,2] of this form included data from a variety of PVES experiments (PVA4, HAPPEx, G0, SAMPLE) and the NCE neutrino and anti-neutrino data from BNL E734. These fits did not constrain $G_A^s(Q^2)$ at low $Q^2$ very well because there was no NCE data for $Q^2

Fields of Study & Subjects

Neutrino Physics Research Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

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Pages
035–035
Publication date
7 September 2026