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Modern global fits agree that up-quark helicity is positive, down-quark helicity is negative, and gluons are positively polarised where RHIC can see them—but the full gluon spin share is still set by the unmeasured small-x region.

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load-bearing objection Solid sole-author field review that cleanly ranks what we know about helicity PDFs and refuses to overclaim the spin sum rule; useful before EIC, not a new extraction. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.24613 v1 pith:GFC5TUQQ submitted 2026-07-27 hep-ph hep-exhep-th

Global analyses of helicity-dependent parton distribution functions

classification hep-ph hep-exhep-th
keywords helicity PDFspolarised parton distributionsnucleon spinglobal QCD analysisDGLAP evolutionspin asymmetriesElectron-Ion Collidergluon polarisation
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This review maps how much of a proton’s spin is carried by the helicities of its quarks and gluons. Helicity-dependent parton distributions are extracted by fitting polarised deep-inelastic scattering, semi-inclusive scattering, and polarised proton–proton data within collinear QCD factorisation. Comparing the latest global analyses, the paper shows a stable picture in the region covered by data: the up-quark helicity distribution is positive, the down-quark one is negative, and the gluon is positively polarised for roughly 0.02 ≲ x ≲ 0.4. Truncated quark-singlet moments down to x ~ 10^{-3} come out positive and of order 0.3–0.4, while the integrated gluon contribution remains dominated by extrapolation below the experimental floor. The Electron–Ion Collider is presented as the facility that can turn those truncated moments into controlled full moments by reaching much smaller x with a long lever arm in scale.

Core claim

Across the most recent global sets, helicity PDFs are consistently determined where data exist: xΔu is positive, xΔd is negative, light-sea polarisation is smaller and less precise, strange polarisation is still poorly known, and Δg is positive in the moderate-x window probed by RHIC jets and hadrons. The quark-singlet truncated moment at xmin = 10^{-3} is positive and of order 0.3–0.4, whereas the full gluon moment cannot yet be quoted because the unmeasured small-x region can still add or cancel a large contribution.

What carries the argument

Global QCD analysis of longitudinal spin asymmetries: collinear factorisation convolves universal helicity PDFs with process-dependent hard coefficients, DGLAP evolution relates scales, and a Bayesian/Monte Carlo fit to complementary DIS, SIDIS, and polarised pp observables separates flavours and the gluon.

Load-bearing premise

That truncated moments integrated below the data floor, using each fit’s flexible small-x shape, can be compared as meaningful spin estimates without a controlled small-x helicity-evolution prior.

What would settle it

Precision polarised inclusive and semi-inclusive measurements at the Electron–Ion Collider that reach x ~ 10^{-4} with a broad Q^{2} lever arm and either confirm a stable full gluon moment or force large revisions of the small-x extrapolation.

Watch this falsifier — get emailed when new claim-graph text bears on it.

If this is right

  • In the data-covered region the proton spin sum rule is already constrained enough that the residual orbital piece is a real target, not an open free parameter of the quark helicities alone.
  • Present truncated moments must not be inserted directly into the spin sum rule to claim a value for orbital angular momentum.
  • EIC inclusive DIS will shrink the extrapolation error on both ΔΣ and ΔG; SIDIS, charged-current, and parity-violating channels will replace flavour-symmetry assumptions with direct constraints.
  • Complete NNLO hard matrix elements for polarised jet and dijet production will be needed before the next generation of fits can claim full perturbative control of the gluon.
  • Benchmarking of common data sets, theory settings, and uncertainty prescriptions across fitting groups becomes mandatory once EIC precision arrives.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If small-x helicity evolution (rather than free parametrisations) is adopted as the default prior before EIC data arrive, today’s large spread in ΔG truncated moments should shrink even without new measurements.
  • Simultaneous PDF–fragmentation fits will likely become the limiting systematic once EIC SIDIS reaches percent-level precision, because asymmetry cancellations will no longer hide FF uncertainties.
  • Lattice constraints on the strange helicity moment at the ~15% level could already rival SIDIS flavour assumptions and should be reported in fits both with and without lattice input.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 6 minor

Summary. This is a review article on the determination of helicity-dependent (polarised) parton distribution functions from global QCD analyses. It covers the definition and operator content of polarised PDFs, the factorisation formulae for DIS, SIDIS, and polarised pp observables together with the status of the relevant perturbative calculations, the experimental landscape from fixed-target DIS through RHIC to the future EIC, the Bayesian methodology of global fits (parametrisation, optimisation, uncertainty representation and validation), and a comparative assessment of the four most recent polarised PDF sets (BDSSV24, JAMpol25, MAPPDFpol1.0, NNPDFpol2.0). Its central claims are a hierarchy of knowledge — well-determined Δu (positive) and Δd (negative), weaker antiquark and strange determinations, positive moderate-x gluon polarisation from RHIC data — and a careful treatment of truncated versus full moments, concluding that the quark-singlet truncated moment at xmin=10^{-3} is positive and of order 0.3–0.4 while the full gluon moment remains dominated by uncontrolled small-x extrapolation. The manuscript explicitly declines to insert truncated moments into the spin sum rule to infer orbital angular momentum.

Significance. This is a timely, comprehensive, and carefully written review of a mature but rapidly evolving subfield, arriving just as four next-generation global analyses (BDSSV24, JAMpol25, MAPPDFpol1.0, NNPDFpol2.0) have appeared and as the field prepares for the EIC. Its strengths are those one wants from a review: a uniform theoretical and experimental framework into which all current fits are placed (Tables 1–3), an explicit and quantitatively honest comparison of PDFs and their truncated moments (Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Table 4), and consistent flagging of the scheme-, scale-, and extrapolation-dependence of every quantity that is not directly observable. The discussion of the gluon sign question is notably balanced — the JAM negative-Δg branch is explained on its own terms and then weighed against Higgs-production positivity and subsequent data. The review also makes constructive, falsifiable programme-level recommendations (pre-EIC PDF benchmarking on a common data set; separate reporting of fits with and without lattice input; sustainable public software). No new results are claimed; the value is in the synthesis, which is accurate and well-sourced.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sect. 6, third paragraph (also Table 4 and Sect. 5.2)] The Summary characterises the quark-singlet truncated moment at xmin=10^{-3} as 'positive and of order 0.3–0.4'. Table 4 (mu^2=100 GeV^2) reports +0.35±0.03 (BDSSV24), +0.43±0.23 (JAMpol25), +0.28±0.13 (MAPPDFpol1.0), and +0.27±0.12 (NNPDFpol2.0), and Sect. 5.2 itself states the range as 'approximately 27–43%'. The '0.3–0.4' phrasing in Sect. 6 is thus a compressed characterisation that sits awkwardly with the paper's own numbers and with its own warning that the interval [10^{-3}, 0.004] is extrapolation-driven. Since xmin=10^{-3} lies below the experimental floor x~0.004 (Sect. 3), the spread among the four values partly reflects priors, parametrisations, and methodologies (MAPPDFpol1.0 lacks RHIC jet constraints; JAMpol25 is a simultaneous NLO PDF/FF fit with a large strange-sector uncertainty) rather than data. For a review whose central deliverable is an accurate synthesis, the summ
  2. [Sect. 5.2, Fig. 3 and Table 4] Table 4 and Fig. 3 compare moments from fits of different perturbative accuracy — BDSSV24, MAPPDFpol1.0 and NNPDFpol2.0 at NNLO, JAMpol25 at NLO — at common scales. Sect. 5.1 (Perturbative convergence) argues from NNPDFpol2.0 that NLO→NNLO shifts are small compared to PDF uncertainties, which supports the comparison, but that argument is made for one fit and one data ensemble; it is not obvious it transfers to the JAMpol25 NLO simultaneous PDF/FF determination, whose singlet-moment central value (+0.43±0.23) is the largest in Table 4. The paper should state explicitly, where Fig. 3/Table 4 are introduced, that the comparison mixes perturbative orders and either justify commensurability more generally or flag it as a caveat of the moment comparison.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Sect. 2.1, Eqs. (9) and (18)] Eq. (18): the F_L term appears with a minus sign, '-(1-y)^2 F_L^{i,h}', whereas the corresponding DIS expression Eq. (9) has '+(1-y)^2 F_L^i'. If this is a typo it should be corrected; if the sign difference is intended (e.g. a convention in de Florian and Rotstein Habarnau, 2013), a word of explanation would prevent confusion.
  2. [Fig. 3] Fig. 3 axis labels use the notation ⟨ΔΣ(Q)⟩ and ⟨Δg(Q)⟩, while the text and Eq. (52) consistently use mu^2 as the scale argument. Please unify the notation (and note that the caption correctly states mu^2=100 GeV^2).
  3. [Sect. 1, Eq. (2)] Eq. (2): it would help the reader to state explicitly that the MS-bar identification a_0 = ΔΣ^{MS} is the convention adopted for all moments shown in Sect. 5 (this is said in Sect. 5.2, but a forward pointer from Eq. (2) would avoid ambiguity).
  4. [Table 2] Table 2: the mu^2 column entry '1-10^4' for the collider-mode rows appears to be a formatting artefact (presumably 1–10^4 GeV^2); please check the range for RHIC W production, which is characterised by a scale ~M_W^2 rather than 1 GeV^2.
  5. [Sect. 4.4] Sect. 4.4: the careful distinction between the Monte Carlo replica distribution and the Bayesian posterior (after Eq. (50)) is welcome; consider adding a pointer here to the multi-closure-test discussion of Sect. 4.5, which is where this distinction is operationally tested.
  6. [Front matter] The title page carries a placeholder copyright line ('© 20xx Elsevier Ltd'); presumably this will be resolved in production.

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Review synthesis of published polarised PDF sets; no derivation reduces to its inputs by construction

full rationale

This is a review article: it defines helicity PDFs and factorisation (Sects. 2–3), summarises Bayesian/global-fit methodology (Sect. 4), and compares four published determinations (BDSSV24, JAMpol25, MAPPDFpol1.0, NNPDFpol2.0) in Sect. 5. The load-bearing phenomenological claims—sign of Δu and Δd in the data region, positive moderate-x Δg from RHIC-sensitive analyses, and a positive truncated singlet moment of order ~0.3 with large gluon-moment uncertainty—are read off external public fits and figures/tables, not derived from a parameter fitted in this paper and then re-presented as a prediction. Truncated moments are explicitly distinguished from full moments, and the text refuses to insert them into the spin sum rule to infer orbital angular momentum (Sect. 5.2). Author overlap with MAP/NNPDF is ordinary self-citation of independent, published ensembles used alongside BDSSV and JAM; it does not force the cross-set consensus by definition. No self-definitional loop, fitted-input-as-prediction, uniqueness theorem, or renamed empirical law is present.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

As a review, load-bearing content is inherited from collinear QCD factorisation, DGLAP evolution, published global fits, and standard spin sum-rule decompositions rather than from new free parameters or invented entities. The few modelling choices that affect the strongest comparative claims are the use of truncated moments, MS-bar scheme identification of a0 with ΔΣ, and the decision to treat existing PDF ensembles as comparable despite different data, orders, and constraints.

free parameters (2)
  • Truncation boundary xmin for reported moments = 10^{-3} (and scan in xmin)
    Table 4 and Fig. 3 use xmin=10^{-3} (and variable xmin) below the data floor ~0.004; the numerical spin fractions quoted depend on this choice and on each fit’s small-x extrapolation.
  • Input scale μ0 and αs(mZ) choices in compared fits = αs(mZ)=0.118; μ0≈1 GeV (fit-dependent)
    Compared sets use μ0~1–1.28 GeV and αs(mZ)=0.118 (Table 3); central values and evolution of moments inherit those conventional inputs from the underlying analyses.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption Collinear factorisation of polarised DIS, SIDIS, and pp spin asymmetries into universal helicity PDFs (and FFs where needed) plus perturbative coefficient functions.
    Sect. 2.2; entire extraction programme rests on this leading-power framework with stated kinematic cuts Q^2>1 GeV^2 and W^2 cuts.
  • domain assumption DGLAP evolution governs scale dependence of polarised PDFs; NNLO splitting functions and coefficient functions are adequate for present data.
    Sect. 2.3 and 5.1 perturbative-convergence discussion; residual MHOU and incomplete NNLO jet hard parts are acknowledged.
  • domain assumption In the MS-bar scheme the singlet axial charge a0 is identified with the first moment of the renormalised singlet quark distribution ΔΣ.
    Eqs. (2)–(3) and Sect. 5.2; scheme dependence of quark vs gluon attribution is stated but MS is used for all numerical comparisons.
  • domain assumption Positivity |Δf_i| ≤ f_i at LO (and milder NLO variants) and optional SU(2)/SU(3) axial-charge moment constraints may be imposed or relaxed in fits.
    Sect. 2.4; affects especially strange and gluon solutions discussed in Sect. 5.1.
  • domain assumption Published Monte Carlo or Hessian uncertainties of BDSSV/JAM/MAP/NNPDF ensembles are sufficiently faithful for qualitative cross-set comparison.
    Sect. 5 comparison; paper notes closure tests are not yet done for polarised PDFs (Sect. 4.5).

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Helicity-dependent, or polarised, parton distribution functions describe the longitudinal polarisation of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons inside a polarised nucleon. They encode how the spin of a fast-moving proton or neutron is shared among its partonic constituents and are therefore central to the modern understanding of nucleon spin structure in Quantum Chromodynamics. Helicity PDFs are extracted from global QCD analyses of polarised hard-scattering data, including inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, and polarised proton-proton collisions. This article reviews the definition and physical interpretation of polarised PDFs, the perturbative QCD framework used to determine them, the experimental observables that constrain the different parton flavours, and the statistical methodology of global analyses. The state of the art in polarised PDF determination is presented, together with the impact expected from future measurements at the Electron-Ion Collider.

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