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Title: A combined analysis of SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) experiments on deep ineleastic e-p and e-d scattering

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OSTI ID:5581082

We report recent work on the extraction of R = {sigma}{sub L}/{sigma}{sub T} and the structure function F{sub 2} over a large kinematic range, which is based on a reanalysis of deep inelastic e-p and e-d scattering cross sections measured at SLAC between 1970 and 1985. All these data were corrected for radiative effects using improved versions of external and internal radiative correction procedures. The data from seven individual experiments were normalized to those from the recent high-precision SLAC experiment E140. We find that R{sub p} = R{sub d}, as expected in QCD. The value of R is higher than predicted by QCD even when target-mass effects are included. This difference indicates that additional dynamical higher-twist effects may be present. The structure functions F{sub 2}p and F{sub 2}d were also extracted from the full data sets of normalized cross sections using an empirical fit to R. These structure functions were then compared with data from the CERN muon scattering experiments BCDMS and EMC. We find that our data are consistent with the EMC data, if the latter are multiplied by a normalization factor of 1.07. No single, uniform normalization factor can be applied to the BCDMS data that will bring them into agreement with SLAC data in the region of overlap. 17 refs., 4 figs.

Research Organization:
Rochester Univ., NY (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/ER
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ER13065
OSTI ID:
5581082
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13065-586; UR-1119; CONF-890903-1; ON: DE90001134; TRN: 89-026450
Resource Relation:
Conference: International Europhysics conference on high-energy physics, Madrid (Spain), 7-14 Sep 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English