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

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7029908
 [1];  [2]
  1. Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
  2. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA (United States)

We study contributions from baryon resonance excitations to the Q{sup 2} dependence of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule. The results indicate that the sum rule at small Q{sup 2} is largely saturated by contribution from the lower mass resonant states. We find a strong Q{sup 2} dependence of the resonant contributions, leading even to a sign change of the sum rule integral at Q{sup 2} {approx equal} O.8GeV{sup 2}. The global Q{sup 2} dependence indicates discrepancies to the interpretation of the EMC polarized structure function data on A{sub 1}{sup p} in the resonance region, which can be largely attributed to the elimination of the P{sub 33}(1232) resonance from the EMC analysis.

Research Organization:
Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc., Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
7029908
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40150-200; CEBAF-PR-92-017; ON: DE93000828
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English