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arxiv: 1604.00305 · v2 · pith:KLLGANAPnew · submitted 2016-04-01 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

The end of WHAT nucleon-spin crisis?

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Povh and Walcher have written a paper entitled "The end of the nucleon-spin crisis" [arXiv:1603.05884]. But there is no such crisis. What appeared to be a spin crisis in the parton model, 28 years ago, was a consequence of a misinterpretation of the results of the famous European Muon Collaboration experiment on polarized deep inelastic scattering. It would thus seem that Povh and Walcher have invoked a somewhat dubious argument based on hadronic fluctuations of the photon in order to resolve a non-existent problem.

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