Published January 19, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Precision Measurements of the Nucleon Strange Form Factors at Q2∼0.1 GeV2

  • 1. Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199 (United States)
  • 2. California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90032 (United States)
  • 3. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 (United States)
  • 4. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
  • 5. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (United States)

Description

We report new measurements of the parity-violating asymmetry APV in elastic scattering of 3 GeV electrons off hydrogen and 4He targets with <θlab>≅6.0 deg. . The 4He result is APV=(+6.40±0.23(stat)±0.12(syst))x10-6. The hydrogen result is APV=(-1.58±0.12(stat)±0.04(syst))x10-6. These results significantly improve constraints on the electric and magnetic strange form factors GEs and GMs. We extract GEs=0.002±0.014±0.007 at =0.077 GeV2, and GEs+0.09GMs=0.007±0.011±0.006 at =0.109 GeV2, providing new limits on the role of strange quarks in the nucleon charge and magnetization distributions

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
98
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 032301-032301.5
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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Notes
(c) 2007 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
HAPPEX Collaboration