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Title: Precise determination of the deuteron spin structure at low to moderate Q2 with CLAS and extraction of the neutron contribution

Journal Article · · Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics
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In this study, we present the final results for the deuteron spin structure functions obtained from the full data set collected with Jefferson Lab's CLAS in 2000-2001. Polarized electrons with energies of 1.6, 2.5, 4.2 and 5.8 GeV were scattered from deuteron (15ND3) targets, dynamically polarized along the beam direction, and detected with CLAS. From the measured double spin asymmetry, the virtual photon absorption asymmetry Ad1 and the polarized structure function gd1 were extracted over a wide kinematic range (0.05 GeV2 < Q2 < 5 GeV2 and 0.9 GeV < W < 3 GeV). We use an unfolding procedure and a parametrization of the corresponding proton results to extract from these data the polarized structure functions An1 and g1n of the (bound) neutron, which are so far unknown in the resonance region, W < 2 GeV. We compare our final results, including several moments of the deuteron and neutron spin structure functions, with various theoretical models and expectations as well as parametrizations of the world data. The unprecedented precision and dense kinematic coverage of these data can aid in future extractions of polarized parton distributions, tests of perturbative QCD predictions for the quark polarization at large x, a better understanding of quark-hadron duality, and more precise values for higher-twist matrix elements in the framework of the Operator Product Expansion.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)
Contributing Organization:
CLAS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177; FG02-96ER40960
OSTI ID:
1224794
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/23177--3359; JLAB-PHY--15-2054; arXiv:1505.07877
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics, Journal Name: Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 92; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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