Published February 9, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Moments of the spin structure functions g1p and g1d for 0.05<Q2<3.0 GeV2

  • 1. Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VI 23606 (United States)
  • 2. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VI 23606 (United States)
  • 3. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VI 23529 (United States)
  • 4. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VI 23187-8795 (United States)
  • 5. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VI 22901 (United States)
  • 6. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590 (United States)
  • 7. INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova (Italy)
  • 8. Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036 Yerevan (Armenia)
  • 9. CEA-Saclay, Service de Physique Nucleaire, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 10. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati (Italy)
  • 11. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504 (United States)
  • 12. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 (United States)
  • 13. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 (United States)

Description

The spin structure functions g1 for the proton and the deuteron have been measured over a wide kinematic range in x and Q2 using 1.6 and 5.7 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons incident upon polarized NH3 and ND3 targets at Jefferson Lab. Scattered electrons were detected in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer, for 0.05<Q2<5 GeV2 and W<3 GeV. The first moments of g1 for the proton and deuteron are presented - both have a negative slope at low Q2, as predicted by the extended Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule. The first extraction of the generalized forward spin polarizability of the proton γ0p is also reported. This quantity shows strong Q2 dependence at low Q2. Our analysis of the Q2 evolution of the first moment of g1 shows agreement in leading order with Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory. However, a significant discrepancy is observed between the γ0p data and Chiral Perturbation calculations for γ0p, even at the lowest Q2

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.12.063

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.12.063;
arXiv
arXiv:0802.2232v4;
PII
S0370-2693(09)00003-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
672
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 12-16
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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