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On a Possibility to Determine the Sign of the Polarized Gluon Distribution
We investigate the possibility to draw conclusions on the sign of the
spin-dependent gluon distribution, , from existing polarized
DIS data. The spin-dependent parton distributions , and are constructed
in the framework of a phenomenological procedure taking into account some
assumptions on signs of valence and sea parton distributions motivated by 't
Hooft's mechanism of quark-quark interaction induced by instantons. The axial
gluon anomaly and data on integral quark contributions to the proton spin,
, and , are also taken into
account. Predictions for the - and -dependencies of the polarized
proton and neutron structure functions, and , are compared to
experimental data. It is shown that the neutron structure function, , is
especially sensitive to the sign of . The results of our
analysis supports the conclusion that this sign should be positive.Comment: 14 pages, latex, 12 figure
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