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A Determination of the Nucleon Tensor Charge Leonard Gamberga , Gary R. Goldsteinb a Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. b Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA (Received: February 1, 2008) Exploiting an approximate phenomenological symmetry of the JPC = 1+− light axial vector mesons and using pole dominance, we calculate the flavor contributions to the nucleon tensor charge. The result 1 depends on the decay constants of the axial vector mesons and their couplings to the nucleons. 0 0 2 1 Introduction v o The spin composition of the nucleon has been intensely studied and has produced important and N surprising insights, beginning with the revelation that the majority of its spin is carried by quark and gluonic orbital angular momenta and gluon spin rather than by quark helicity [1,2]. In addition, con- 8 siderable effort has gone into understanding, predicting and measuring the transversity distribution, h (x), of the nucleon [3]. Transversity, as combinations of helicity states, |⊥/⊤ ∼ ( |+ ±|− ), 1 1 v for the moving nucleon is a variable introduced originally by Moravcsik and Goldstein [4] to reveal 5 9 an underlying simplicity in nucleon–nucleon spin dependent scattering amplitudes. In their analysis 0 of the chiral odd distributions, Jaffe and Ji [5] related the first moment of the transversity distri- 1 1 a a a 1 bution to