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

Prok, Y. et al. (2014) Precision measurements of g1 of the proton and of the deuteron with 6 GeV electrons. Physical Review C, 90(2), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.90.025212)

Abstract

The inclusive polarized structure functions of the proton and deuteron, gp1 and gd1, 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.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and Protopopescu, Dr Dan and Smith, Mr Gordon and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and Montgomery, Dr Rachel and Anderson, Mr Mark and Ireland, Professor David and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Prok, Y., Bosted, P., Kvaltine, N., Adhikari, K. P., Adikaram, D., Aghasyan, M., Amaryan, M. J., Anderson, M. D., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Baghdasaryan, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Biselli, A. S., Bono, J., Briscoe, W. J., Brock, J., Brooks, W. K., Bültmann, S., Burkert, V. D., Carlin, C., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Colaneri, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crabb, D., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dodge, G. E., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Fleming, J. A., Forest, T. A., Garçon, M., Garillon, B., Gevorgyan, N., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Girod, F. X., Giovanetti, K. L., Goetz, J. T., Gohn, W., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guegan, B., Guler, N., Hafidi, K., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Ho, D., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jawalkar, S., Jiang, X., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Kalantarians, N., Keith, C., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Kuleshov, S. V., Lenisa, P., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Meekins, D., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R.A., Moutarde, H., Movsisyan, A., Munevar, E., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Peng, P., Phillips, J. J., Pierce, J., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Protopopescu, D., Puckett, A. J. R., Raue, B. A., Rimal, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Saini, M. S., Salgado, C., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Sharabian, Y. G., Simonyan, A., Smith, C., Smith, G., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S. S., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Sytnik, V., Taiuti, M., Tang, W., Tkachenko, S., Ungaro, M., Vernarsky, B., Vlassov, A. V., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D. P., Weinstein, L. B., Zachariou, N., Zana, L., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z. W., and Zonta, I.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review C
• ISSN: 0556-2813
• ISSN (Online): 1089-490X