404 research outputs found
Empirical Fit to Inelastic Electron-Deuteron and Electron-Neutron Resonance Region Transverse Cross Sections
An empirical fit is described to measurements of inclusive inelastic
electron-deuteron cross sections in the kinematic r ange of four-momentum
transfer GeV and final state invariant mass GeV.
The deuteron fit relies on a fit of the ratio of longitudinal to
transverse cross sections for the proton, and the assumption . The
underlying fit parameters describe the average cross section for proton and
neutron, with a plane-wave impulse approximation used to fit to the deuteron
data. An additional term is used to fill in the dip between the quasi-elastic
peak and the resonance. The mean deviation of data from the fit
is 3%, with less than 4% of the data points deviating from the fit by more than
10%.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C. Text clarified in
response to referee comment
Hadron Spin Dynamics
Spin effects in exclusive and inclusive reactions provide an essential new
dimension for testing QCD and unraveling hadron structure. Remarkable new
experiments from SLAC, HERMES (DESY), and the Jefferson Laboratory present many
challenges to theory, including measurements at HERMES and SMC of the single
spin asymmetries in pion electroproduction, where the proton is polarized
normal to the scattering plane. This type of single spin asymmetry may be due
to the effects of rescattering of the outgoing quark on the spectators of the
target proton, an effect usually neglected in conventional QCD analyses. Many
aspects of spin, such as single-spin asymmetries and baryon magnetic moments
are sensitive to the dynamics of hadrons at the amplitude level, rather than
probability distributions. I illustrate the novel features of spin dynamics for
relativistic systems by examining the explicit form of the light-front
wavefunctions for the two-particle Fock state of the electron in QED, thus
connecting the Schwinger anomalous magnetic moment to the spin and orbital
momentum carried by its Fock state constituents and providing a transparent
basis for understanding the structure of relativistic composite systems and
their matrix elements in hadronic physics. I also present a survey of
outstanding spin puzzles in QCD, particularly the double transverse spin
asymmetry A_{NN} in elastic proton-proton scattering, the J/psi to rho-pi
puzzle, and J/psi polarization at the Tevatron.Comment: Concluding theory talk presented at SPIN2001, the Third
Circum-Pan-Pacific Symposium on High Energy Physics, October, 2001, Beijin
Ratios of 15N/12C and 4He/12C inclusive electroproduction cross sections in the nucleon resonance region
The (W,Q2) dependence of the ratio of inclusive electron scattering cross sections for 15N/12C was determined in the kinematic ranges 0.
Higher twist analysis of the proton g_1 structure function
We perform a global analysis of all available spin-dependent proton structure
function data, covering a large range of Q^2, 1 < Q^2 < 30 GeV^2, and calculate
the lowest moment of the g_1 structure function as a function of Q^2. From the
Q^2 dependence of the lowest moment we extract matrix elements of twist-4
operators, and determine the color electric and magnetic polarizabilities of
the proton to be \chi_E = 0.026 +- 0.015 (stat) + 0.021/-0.024 (sys) and \chi_B
= -0.013 -+ 0.007 (stat) - 0.010/+0.012 (sys), respectively.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett.
Self-Consistent Data Analysis of the Proton Structure Function g1 and Extraction of its Moments
The reanalysis of all available world data on the longitudinal asymmetry A||
is presented. The proton structure function g1 was extracted within a unique
framework of data inputs and assumptions. These data allowed for a reliable
evaluation of moments of the structure function g1 in the Q2 range from 0.2 up
to 30 GeV2. The Q2 evolution of the moments was studied in QCD by means of
Operator Product Expansion (OPE).Comment: Proceeding of 3rd International Symposium on the
Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule and its extensions, Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Virginia June 2-5, 200
Longitudinal Target-Spin Asymmetries for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering
A measurement of the electroproduction of photons off protons in the deeply inelastic regime was performed at Jefferson Lab using a nearly 6 GeV electron beam, a longitudinally polarized proton target, and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. Target-spin asymmetries for ep. e\u27p\u27gamma. events, which arise from the interference of the deeply virtual Compton scattering and the Bethe-Heitler processes, were extracted over the widest kinematics in Q(2), x(B), t, and phi, for 166 four-dimensional bins. In the framework of generalized parton distributions, at leading twist the t dependence of these asymmetries provides insight into the spatial distribution of the axial charge of the proton, which appears to be concentrated in its center. These results also bring important and necessary constraints for the existing parametrizations of chiral-even generalized parton distributions
Leading-Log Effects in the Resonance Electroweak Form Factors
We study log corrections to inelastic scattering at high Bjorken x for Q^2
from 1 to 21 GeV^2. At issue is the presence of log corrections, which can be
absent if high x scattering has damped gluon radiation. We find logarithmic
correction of the scaling curve extrapolated to low Q^2 improves the duality
between it and the resonance plus background data in the Delta region,
indicating log corrections exist in the data. However, at W > 2 GeV and high x,
the data shows a (1-x)^3 form. Log corrections in one situation but not in
another can be reconciled by a W- or Q^2- dependent higher twist correction.Comment: 13 pages, report nos. RPI-94-N90 and WM-94-106, revtex, two figures
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Precise determination of the deuteron spin structure at low to moderate Q(2) with CLAS and extraction of the neutron contribution
We present the final results for the deuteron spin structure functions obtained from the full data set collected in 2000-2001 with Jefferson Lab\u27s continuous electron beam accelerator facility (CEBAF) using the CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer (CLAS). Polarized electrons with energies of 1.6, 2.5, 4.2, and 5.8 GeV were scattered from deuteron ((ND3)-N-15) targets, dynamically polarized along the beam direction, and detected with CLAS. From the measured double-spin asymmetry, the virtual photon absorption asymmetry A(1)(d) and the polarized structure function g(1)(d) were extracted over a wide kinematic range (0.05 GeV2 \u3c Q(2) \u3c 5 GeV2 and 0.9 GeV \u3c W \u3c 3 GeV). We use an unfolding procedure and a parametrization of the corresponding proton results to extract from these data the polarized structure functions A(1)(n) and g(1)(n) of the (bound) neutron, which are so far unknown in the resonance region, W \u3c 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
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