Determination of the proton spin structure functions for 0.05 < Q2 < 5GeV2 using CLAS

Fersch, R. G. et al. (2017) Determination of the proton spin structure functions for 0.05 < Q2 < 5GeV2 using CLAS. Physical Review C, 96(6), 065208. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.065208)

Abstract

We present the results of our final analysis of the full data set of g p 1 ( Q 2 ) , the spin structure function of the proton, collected using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory in 2000–2001. Polarized electrons with energies of 1.6, 2.5, 4.2, and 5.7 GeV were scattered from proton targets ( 15 NH 3 dynamically polarized along the beam direction) and detected with CLAS. From the measured double spin asymmetries, we extracted virtual photon asymmetries A p 1 and A p 2 and spin structure functions g p 1 and g p 2 over a wide kinematic range (0.05 GeV 2 < Q 2 < 5 GeV 2 and 1.08 GeV < W < 3 GeV) and calculated moments of g p 1 . We compare our final results with various theoretical models and expectations, as well as with parametrizations of the world data. Our data, with their precision and dense kinematic coverage, are able to constrain fits of polarized parton distributions, test pQCD predictions for quark polarizations at large x , offer a better understanding of quark-hadron duality, and provide more precise values of higher twist matrix elements in the framework of the operator product expansion.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and Protopopescu, Dr Dan and Murdoch, Mr Gavin and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Clark, Ms Louise and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and Montgomery, Dr Rachel and Ireland, Professor David and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Fersch, R. G., Guler, N., Bosted, P., Deur, A., Griffioen, K., Keith, C., Kuhn, S. E., Minehart, R., Prok, Y., Adhikari, K. P., Adhikari, S., Akbar, Z., Amaryan, M. J., Anefalos Pereira, S., Asryan, G., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Balossino, I., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Bültmann, S., Burkert, V. D., Thanh Cao, F., Carman, D. S., Careccia, S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Colaneri, L., Cole, P. L., Compton, N., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Djalali, C., Dodge, G. E., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fanchini, E., Fedotov, G., Filippi, A., Fleming, J. A., Forest, T. A., Garçon, M., Gavalian, G., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Gleason, C., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Hughes, S. M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khachatryan, M., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Kubarovsky, V., Lagerquist, V. G., Lanza, L., Lenisa, P., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., McKinnon, B., Meyer, C. A., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Movsisyan, A., Munoz Camacho, C., Murdoch, G., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pierce, J., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Price, J. W., Protopopescu, D., Raue, B. A., Ripani, M., Riser, D., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schumacher, R. A., Sharabian, Y. G., Simonyan, A., Skorodumina, I., Smith, G. D., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stankovic, I., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tian, Y., Torayev, B., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D. P., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Zachariou, N., and Zhang, J.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review C
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 2469-9985
• ISSN (Online): 2469-9993
• Published Online: 27 December 2017
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2017 American Physical Society
• First Published: First published in Physical Review C 96(6): 065208
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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