Research Article

Spin-Dependent Coupled Altarelli-Parisi Equations in the NLO and the Method of Successive Approximations

Table 1

Values of Δ ( 𝑄 2 ) and Δ 𝐺 ( 𝑄 2 ) obtained from this work in NLO after four iterations at 𝑄 2 = 1 0 G e V 2 .

1st iter.2nd iter.3rd iter.4th iter.Exp. values

Δ ( 𝑄 2 ) 0 . 3 4 8 0 . 4 2 7 0 . 6 4 6 0 . 6 3 1 0 . 3 5 ± 0 . 0 6
(COMPASS at 𝑄 2 = 3 G e V 2 )
0 . 3 3 ± 0 . 0 4
(HERMES at 𝑄 2 = 5 G e V 2 )

Δ 𝐺 ( 𝑄 2 ) 0 . 1 3 4 0 . 3 4 2 0 . 4 5 8 0 . 5 3 5 0 . 2 9 ± 0 . 3 2
(From all fits of present data)