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Title: What do we know about the [ital Q][sup 2] evolution of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
 [1];  [2]
  1. Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  2. Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24601 (United States)

We study contributions from baryon resonance excitations to the [ital Q][sup 2] dependence of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule. The results indicate that the sum rule at small [ital Q][sup 2] is largely saturated by contributions from the lower mass resonant states. We find a strong [ital Q][sup 2] dependence of the resonant contributions, leading even to a sign change of the sum rule integral at [ital Q][sup 2][congruent]0.8 GeV[sup 2]. The global [ital Q][sup 2] dependence indicates discrepancies to the interpretation of the European Muon Collaboration polarized structure function data on [ital A][sub 1][sup [ital p]] in the resonance region.

OSTI ID:
6890250
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 47:1; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English