Precision measurements of g1 of the proton and of the deuteron with 6 GeV electrons

  • Y. Prok
  • , P. Bosted
  • , N. Kvaltine
  • , K. P. Adhikari
  • , D. Adikaram
  • , M. Aghasyan
  • , M. J. Amaryan
  • , M. D. Anderson
  • , S. Anefalos Pereira
  • , H. Avakian
  • , H. Baghdasaryan
  • , J. Ball
  • , N. A. Baltzell
  • , M. Battaglieri
  • , A. S. Biselli
  • , J. Bono
  • , W. J. Briscoe
  • , J. Brock
  • , W. K. Brooks
  • , S. Bültmann
  • V. D. Burkert, C. Carlin, D. S. Carman, A. Celentano, S. Chandavar, L. Colaneri, P. L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, O. Cortes, D. Crabb, V. Crede, A. D'Angelo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, E. De Sanctis, A. Deur, C. Djalali, G. E. Dodge, D. Doughty, R. Dupre, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, L. Elouadrhiri, G. Fedotov, S. Fegan, R. Fersch, J. A. Fleming, T. A. Forest, M. Garçon, B. Garillon, N. Gevorgyan, Y. Ghandilyan, G. P. Gilfoyle, F. X. Girod, K. L. Giovanetti, J. T. Goetz, W. Gohn, R. W. Gothe, K. A. Griffioen, B. Guegan, N. Guler, K. Hafidi, C. Hanretty, N. Harrison, M. Hattawy, K. Hicks, D. Ho, M. Holtrop, Y. Ilieva, D. G. Ireland, B. S. Ishkhanov, E. L. Isupov, S. Jawalkar, X. Jiang, H. S. Jo, K. Joo, N. Kalantarians, C. Keith, D. Keller, M. Khandaker, A. Kim, W. Kim, A. Klein, F. J. Klein, S. Koirala, V. Kubarovsky, S. E. Kuhn, S. V. Kuleshov, P. Lenisa, K. Livingston, H. Y. Lu, I. J.D. Macgregor, N. Markov, M. Mayer, B. McKinnon, D. Meekins, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, V. Mokeev, R. A. Montgomery, H. Moutarde, A. Movsisyan, E. Munevar, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Nadel-Turonski, S. Niccolai, G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu, M. Osipenko, A. I. Ostrovidov, L. L. Pappalardo, R. Paremuzyan, K. Park, P. Peng, J. J. Phillips, J. Pierce, S. Pisano, O. Pogorelko, S. Pozdniakov, J. W. Price, S. Procureur, D. Protopopescu, A. J.R. Puckett, B. A. Raue, D. Rimal, M. Ripani, A. Rizzo, G. Rosner, P. Rossi, P. Roy, F. Sabatié, M. S. Saini, C. Salgado, D. Schott, R. A. Schumacher, E. Seder, Y. G. Sharabian, A. Simonyan, C. Smith, G. Smith, D. I. Sober, D. Sokhan, S. S. Stepanyan, S. Stepanyan, I. I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, V. Sytnik, M. Taiuti, W. Tang, S. Tkachenko, M. Ungaro, B. Vernarsky, A. V. Vlassov, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, N. K. Walford, D. P. Watts, L. B. Weinstein, N. Zachariou, L. Zana, J. Zhang, B. Zhao, Z. W. Zhao, I. Zonta

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Abstract

The inclusive polarized structure functions of the proton and deuteron, g1p and g1d, were measured with high statistical precision using polarized 6 GeV electrons incident on a polarized ammonia target in Hall B at Jefferson Laboratory. Electrons scattered at laboratory angles between 18 and 45 degrees were detected using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). For the usual deep inelastic region kinematics, Q2>1 GeV2 and the final-state invariant mass W>2 GeV, the ratio of polarized to unpolarized structure functions g1/F1 is found to be nearly independent of Q2 at fixed x. Significant resonant structure is apparent at values of W up to 2.3 GeV. In the framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics, the high-W results can be used to better constrain the polarization of quarks and gluons in the nucleon, as well as high-twist contributions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number025212
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume90
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 29 2014
Externally publishedYes

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