Nucleon Spin Structure Functions

Abstract

The review of the nucleon spin structure functions problems is presented. The perturbative QCD predictions for the small x behaviour of the nucleon spin structure functions are discussed. The role of the resummation of the ln^2 1/x terms is emphasized. Predictions for the nonsinglet structure function g_1 in case of a flat as well as a dynamical input are given. The so called "spin crisis" on the context of both theoretical and experimental future hopes are also briefly discussed.

Comments: The shorter version of this paper has been accepted to publication in Acta Physica Polonica B