Can the polarization of the strange quarks in the proton be positive ?
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✦ hep-ph
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polarizationpositiveprotonquarksstrangealmostanalysisargue
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Recently, the HERMES Collaboration at DESY, using a leading order QCD analysis of their data on semi-inclusive deep inelastic production of charged hadrons, reported a marginally positive polarization for the strange quarks in the proton. We argue that a non-negative polarization is almost impossible.
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