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Title: Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q 2 = 4 GeV 2

Abstract

We present extractions of the nucleon non-singlet moments utilizing new precision data on the deuteron F2 structure function at large Bjorken-x determined via the Rosenbluth separation technique at Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall C. These new data are combined with a complementary set of data on the proton previously measured in Hall C at similar kinematics and world data sets on the proton and deuteron at lower x measured at SLAC and CERN. The new Jefferson Lab data provide coverage of the upper third of the x range, crucial for precision determination of the higher moments. In contrast to previous extractions, these moments have been corrected for nuclear effects in the deuteron using a new global fit to the deuteron and proton data. The obtained experimental moments represent an order of magnitude improvement in precision over previous extractions using high x data. Furthermore, recent exciting developments in Lattice QCD calculations provide a first ever comparison of these new experimental results with calculations of moments carried out at the physical pion mass, as well as an innovative approach which first calculates the quark distributions directly before determining moments.

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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Contributing Org.:
E06-009 Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1564094
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1542289; OSTI ID: 1546496; OSTI ID: 1599200; OSTI ID: 1830330; OSTI ID: 1838673
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231; FG02-96ER40950; AC05-06OR23177; PHY-1002644; PHY-1508272; FG02-07ER41528; SC0008475
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 123; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Lattice QCD; Nuclear structure & decays; Perturbative QCD; QCD in nuclear reactions; Quantum chromodynamics; Quark model; Resonance reactions

Citation Formats

Albayrak, I., Mamyan, V., Christy, M. E., Ahmidouch, A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Bodek, A., Bosted, P., Bradford, R., Brash, E., Bruell, A., Butuceanu, C., Coleman, S. J., Commisso, M., Connell, S. H., Dalton, M. M., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Day, D. B., Dhamija, S., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gran, R., Horn, T., Huang, Liting, Huber, G. M., Jayalath, C., Johnson, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Liyanage, A., Keppel, C. E., Kinney, E., Li, Y., Malace, S., Manly, S., Markowitz, P., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, N. N., McFarland, K. S., Meziane, M., Meziani, Z. E., Mills, G. B., Mkrtchyan, H., Mkrtchyan, A., Mulholland, J., Nelson, J., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Pentchev, L., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qattan, I. A., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Sakuda, M., Sakumoto, W. K., Segbefia, E., Seva, T., Sick, I., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Steinman, J., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tajima, S., Tvaskis, V., Vulcan, W. F., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., and Ye, Zhihong. Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q2=4 GeV2. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022501.
Albayrak, I., Mamyan, V., Christy, M. E., Ahmidouch, A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Bodek, A., Bosted, P., Bradford, R., Brash, E., Bruell, A., Butuceanu, C., Coleman, S. J., Commisso, M., Connell, S. H., Dalton, M. M., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Day, D. B., Dhamija, S., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gran, R., Horn, T., Huang, Liting, Huber, G. M., Jayalath, C., Johnson, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Liyanage, A., Keppel, C. E., Kinney, E., Li, Y., Malace, S., Manly, S., Markowitz, P., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, N. N., McFarland, K. S., Meziane, M., Meziani, Z. E., Mills, G. B., Mkrtchyan, H., Mkrtchyan, A., Mulholland, J., Nelson, J., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Pentchev, L., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qattan, I. A., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Sakuda, M., Sakumoto, W. K., Segbefia, E., Seva, T., Sick, I., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Steinman, J., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tajima, S., Tvaskis, V., Vulcan, W. F., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., & Ye, Zhihong. Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q2=4 GeV2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022501
Albayrak, I., Mamyan, V., Christy, M. E., Ahmidouch, A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Bodek, A., Bosted, P., Bradford, R., Brash, E., Bruell, A., Butuceanu, C., Coleman, S. J., Commisso, M., Connell, S. H., Dalton, M. M., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Day, D. B., Dhamija, S., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gran, R., Horn, T., Huang, Liting, Huber, G. M., Jayalath, C., Johnson, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Liyanage, A., Keppel, C. E., Kinney, E., Li, Y., Malace, S., Manly, S., Markowitz, P., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, N. N., McFarland, K. S., Meziane, M., Meziani, Z. E., Mills, G. B., Mkrtchyan, H., Mkrtchyan, A., Mulholland, J., Nelson, J., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Pentchev, L., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qattan, I. A., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Sakuda, M., Sakumoto, W. K., Segbefia, E., Seva, T., Sick, I., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Steinman, J., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tajima, S., Tvaskis, V., Vulcan, W. F., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., and Ye, Zhihong. Tue . "Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q2=4 GeV2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022501. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1564094.
@article{osti_1564094,
title = {Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q2=4 GeV2},
author = {Albayrak, I. and Mamyan, V. and Christy, M. E. and Ahmidouch, A. and Arrington, J. and Asaturyan, A. and Bodek, A. and Bosted, P. and Bradford, R. and Brash, E. and Bruell, A. and Butuceanu, C. and Coleman, S. J. and Commisso, M. and Connell, S. H. and Dalton, M. M. and Danagoulian, S. and Daniel, A. and Day, D. B. and Dhamija, S. and Dunne, J. and Dutta, D. and Ent, R. and Gaskell, D. and Gasparian, A. and Gran, R. and Horn, T. and Huang, Liting and Huber, G. M. and Jayalath, C. and Johnson, M. and Jones, M. K. and Kalantarians, N. and Liyanage, A. and Keppel, C. E. and Kinney, E. and Li, Y. and Malace, S. and Manly, S. and Markowitz, P. and Maxwell, J. and Mbianda, N. N. and McFarland, K. S. and Meziane, M. and Meziani, Z. E. and Mills, G. B. and Mkrtchyan, H. and Mkrtchyan, A. and Mulholland, J. and Nelson, J. and Niculescu, G. and Niculescu, I. and Pentchev, L. and Puckett, A. and Punjabi, V. and Qattan, I. A. and Reimer, P. E. and Reinhold, J. and Rodriguez, V. M. and Rondon-Aramayo, O. and Sakuda, M. and Sakumoto, W. K. and Segbefia, E. and Seva, T. and Sick, I. and Slifer, K. and Smith, G. R. and Steinman, J. and Solvignon, P. and Tadevosyan, V. and Tajima, S. and Tvaskis, V. and Vulcan, W. F. and Walton, T. and Wesselmann, F. R. and Wood, S. A. and Ye, Zhihong},
abstractNote = {We present extractions of the nucleon non-singlet moments utilizing new precision data on the deuteron F2 structure function at large Bjorken-x determined via the Rosenbluth separation technique at Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall C. These new data are combined with a complementary set of data on the proton previously measured in Hall C at similar kinematics and world data sets on the proton and deuteron at lower x measured at SLAC and CERN. The new Jefferson Lab data provide coverage of the upper third of the x range, crucial for precision determination of the higher moments. In contrast to previous extractions, these moments have been corrected for nuclear effects in the deuteron using a new global fit to the deuteron and proton data. The obtained experimental moments represent an order of magnitude improvement in precision over previous extractions using high x data. Furthermore, recent exciting developments in Lattice QCD calculations provide a first ever comparison of these new experimental results with calculations of moments carried out at the physical pion mass, as well as an innovative approach which first calculates the quark distributions directly before determining moments.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022501},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 2,
volume = 123,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: E06-009 data on deuteron F2 before and after subtraction of the QE contribution. The band at the bottom represents the estimated systematic uncertainty from this procedure. The dot dashed curve is the QE model, the short dashed curve is the total (QE+ inelastic) model and the solid curvemore » is the inelastic model.« less

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