Nucleon spin structure and its connections to various sum rules

Abstract

Our knowledge on the nucleon spin structure has greatly improved over the last twenty years or so, but still many fundamental questions remain unsolved. I will try to review some of the puzzling aspects of the origin of the nucleon spin. I will emphasize the connection with several sum rules and, when using this tool, the relevance of some kinematic regions for testing them in the QCD dynamics framework.

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, Invited talk presented at GDH2004, June 2-5 2004, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA