Low Q2 Measurement of g2p and the δLT Spin Polarizability

JLab has been at the forefront of a program to measure the nucleon spin-dependent structure functions over a wide kinematic range, and data of unprecedented quality has been extracted in all three experimental halls. Moments of these quantities have proven to be powerful tools to test QCD sum rules and provide benchmark tests of Lattice QCD and Chiral Perturbation Theory. Precision measurements of g1,2n and g1p have been performed as part of the highly successful 'extended GDH program', but data on the g2p structure function remain scarce. We discuss here JLab experiment E08-027, which will measure g2p in the resonance region at low Q2. These data will be used to test the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule and to extract the higher moments δLTp(Q2) and d-bar2p(Q2). Data in the Q2 range 0.02<Q2<0.4 GeV2 will provide unambiguous benchmark tests of χPT calculations on the lower end, while probing the transition region at the high Q2 end where parton-like behaviour begins to emerge. This data will also have a significant impact on our theoretical understanding of the hyperfine structure of the proton, and reduce the systematic uncertainty of previous experiments which extracted the g1p structure from purely longitudinal measurements.