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arxiv: 0905.4619 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-28 · ✦ hep-ph

The proton spin puzzle: where are we today ?

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The proton spin puzzle has challenged our understanding of QCD for the last 20 years. New measurements of polarized glue, valence and sea quark polarization, including strange quark polarization, are available. What is new and exciting in the data, and what might this tell us about the structure of the proton ? The proton spin puzzle seems to be telling us about the interplay of valence quarks with the complex vacuum structure of QCD.

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