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Title: Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using spectator tagging in inelastic H 2 ( e , e ' p s ) X scattering with CLAS

Abstract

In this study, much less is known about neutron structure than that of the proton due to the absence of free neutron targets. Neutron information is usually extracted from data on nuclear targets such as deuterium, requiring corrections for nuclear binding and nucleon off-shell effects. These corrections are model dependent and have significant uncertainties, especially for large values of the Bjorken scaling variable x. As a consequence, the same data can lead to different conclusions, for example, about the behavior of the d quark distribution in the proton at large x.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Org.:
CLAS Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1129760
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-14-1844; DOE/OR/23177-3002; arXiv:1402.2477
Journal ID: ISSN 0556-2813; PRVCAN; TRN: US1600815
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-84ER40150
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 89; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0556-2813
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; structure functions; nucleon structure; high Bjorken x

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Tkachenko, S., Baillie, N., Kuhn, S. E., Zhang, J., Arrington, J., Bosted, P., Bültmann, S., Christy, M. E., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Griffioen, K. A., Ispiryan, M., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Melnitchouk, W., Tvaskis, V., Adhikari, K. P., Aghasyan, M., Amaryan, M. J., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dodge, G. E., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fleming, J. A., Garillon, B., Gevorgyan, N., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Goetz, J. T., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Ho, D., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Jo, H. S., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., King, P. M., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, V., Kuleshov, S. V., Lenisa, P., Lewis, S., Livingston, K., Lu, H., MacCormick, M., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Moutarde, H., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phillips, J. J., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Protopopescu, D., Puckett, A. J. R., Rimal, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Senderovich, I., Sharabian, Y. G., Simonyan, A., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S., Stepanyan, S. S., Strauch, S., Tang, W., Ungaro, M., Vlassov, A. V., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Wood, M. H., Zana, L., and Zonta, I. Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using spectator tagging in inelastic H2 ( e, e'ps ) X scattering with CLAS. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.89.045206.
Tkachenko, S., Baillie, N., Kuhn, S. E., Zhang, J., Arrington, J., Bosted, P., Bültmann, S., Christy, M. E., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Griffioen, K. A., Ispiryan, M., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Melnitchouk, W., Tvaskis, V., Adhikari, K. P., Aghasyan, M., Amaryan, M. J., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dodge, G. E., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fleming, J. A., Garillon, B., Gevorgyan, N., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Goetz, J. T., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Ho, D., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Jo, H. S., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., King, P. M., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, V., Kuleshov, S. V., Lenisa, P., Lewis, S., Livingston, K., Lu, H., MacCormick, M., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Moutarde, H., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phillips, J. J., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Protopopescu, D., Puckett, A. J. R., Rimal, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Senderovich, I., Sharabian, Y. G., Simonyan, A., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S., Stepanyan, S. S., Strauch, S., Tang, W., Ungaro, M., Vlassov, A. V., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Wood, M. H., Zana, L., & Zonta, I. Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using spectator tagging in inelastic H2 ( e, e'ps ) X scattering with CLAS. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.045206
Tkachenko, S., Baillie, N., Kuhn, S. E., Zhang, J., Arrington, J., Bosted, P., Bültmann, S., Christy, M. E., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Griffioen, K. A., Ispiryan, M., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Melnitchouk, W., Tvaskis, V., Adhikari, K. P., Aghasyan, M., Amaryan, M. J., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dodge, G. E., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fleming, J. A., Garillon, B., Gevorgyan, N., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Goetz, J. T., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Ho, D., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Jo, H. S., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., King, P. M., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, V., Kuleshov, S. V., Lenisa, P., Lewis, S., Livingston, K., Lu, H., MacCormick, M., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Moutarde, H., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phillips, J. J., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Protopopescu, D., Puckett, A. J. R., Rimal, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Senderovich, I., Sharabian, Y. G., Simonyan, A., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S., Stepanyan, S. S., Strauch, S., Tang, W., Ungaro, M., Vlassov, A. V., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Wood, M. H., Zana, L., and Zonta, I. 2014. "Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using spectator tagging in inelastic H2 ( e, e'ps ) X scattering with CLAS". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.045206. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1129760.
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title = {Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using spectator tagging in inelastic H2 ( e, e'ps ) X scattering with CLAS},
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abstractNote = {In this study, much less is known about neutron structure than that of the proton due to the absence of free neutron targets. Neutron information is usually extracted from data on nuclear targets such as deuterium, requiring corrections for nuclear binding and nucleon off-shell effects. These corrections are model dependent and have significant uncertainties, especially for large values of the Bjorken scaling variable x. As a consequence, the same data can lead to different conclusions, for example, about the behavior of the d quark distribution in the proton at large x.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.89.045206},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1129760}, journal = {Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics},
issn = {0556-2813},
number = 4,
volume = 89,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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