Measurement of the virtual-photon asymmetry A 2 and the spin-structure function g 2 of the proton

Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Measurement of the virtual-photon asymmetry A 2 and the spin-structure function g 2 of the proton. European Physical Journal C, 72(1921), (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1921-5)

Abstract

A measurement of the virtual-photon asymmetry A 2(x,Q 2) and of the spin-structure function g 2(x,Q 2) of the proton are presented for the kinematic range 0.004<x<0.9 and 0.18 GeV2<Q 2<20 GeV2. The data were collected by the HERMES experiment at the HERA storage ring at DESY while studying inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of 27.6 GeV longitudinally polarized leptons off a transversely polarized hydrogen gas target. The results are consistent with previous experimental data from CERN and SLAC. For the x-range covered, the measured integral of g 2(x) converges to the null result of the Burkhardt–Cottingham sum rule. The x 2 moment of the twist-3 contribution to g 2(x) is found to be compatible with zero.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mahon, Dr David and Murray, Dr Morgan and Hoek, Mr Matthias and Keri, Dr Tibor and Burns, Mr Jonathan and Kaiser, Professor Ralf and Lehmann, Dr Inti and Seitz, Dr Bjoern and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Airapetian, A., Akopov, N., Akopov, Z., Aschenauer, E. C., Augustyniak, W., Avakian, R., Avetissian, A., Avetisyan, E., Belostotski, S., Bianchi, N., Blok, H. P., Borissov, A., Bowles, J., Bryzgalov, V., Burns, J., Capiluppi, M., Capitani, G. P., Cisbani, E., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., Dalpiaz, P. F., Deconinck, W., Leo, R., Nardo, L., Sanctis, E., Diefenthaler, M., Nezza, P., Düren, M., Ehrenfried, M., Elbakian, G., Ellinghaus, F., Fantoni, A., Felawka, L., Frullani, S., Gabbert, D., Gapienko, G., Gapienko, V., Garibaldi, F., Gavrilov, G., Gharibyan, V., Giordano, F., Gliske, S., Golembiovskaya, M., Hadjidakis, C., Hartig, M., Hasch, D., Hillenbrand, A., Hoek, M., Holler, Y., Hristova, I., Imazu, Y., Ivanilov, A., Jackson, H. E., Jo, H. S., Joosten, S., Kaiser, R., Karyan, G., Keri, T., Kinney, E., Kisselev, A., Korotkov, V., Kozlov, V., Kravchenko, P., Krivokhijine, V. G., Lagamba, L., Lapikás, L., Lehmann, I., Lenisa, P., López Ruiz, A., Lorenzon, W., Ma, B.-Q., Mahon, D., Makins, N. C. R., Manaenkov, S. I., Manfré, L., Mao, Y., Marianski, B., Martinez de la Ossa, A., Marukyan, H., Miller, C. A., Miyachi, Y., Movsisyan, A., Muccifora, V., Murray, M., Mussgiller, A., Nappi, E., Naryshkin, Y., Nass, A., Negodaev, M., Nowak, W.-D., Pappalardo, L. L., Perez-Benito, R., Petrosyan, A., Reimer, P. E., Reolon, A. R., Riedl, C., Rith, K., Rosner, G., Rostomyan, A., Rubin, J., Ryckbosch, D., Salomatin, Y., Sanftl, F., Schäfer, A., Schnell, G., Schüler, K. P., Seitz, B., Shibata, T.-A., Shutov, V., Stancari, M., Statera, M., Steffens, E., Steijger, J. J. M., Stewart, J., Stinzing, F., Taroian, S., Terkulov, A., Truty, R., Trzcinski, A., Tytgat, M., Vandenbroucke, A., Haarlem, Y., Hulse, C., Veretennikov, D., Vikhrov, V., Vilardi, I., Wang, S., Yaschenko, S., Ye, Z., Yen, S., Zagrebelnyy, V., Zeiler, D., Zihlmann, B., and Zupranski, P.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: European Physical Journal C
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1434-6044
• ISSN (Online): 1434-6052
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2012 The Authors
• First Published: First published in European Physical Journal C 72:1921
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