13 research outputs found
Nuclear Density Dependence of In-Medium Polarization
It is shown that polarization transfer measurements on
a specific target nucleus can provide constraints on the ratio of the in-medium
electric to magnetic form factor. Thereby one exploits the fact that proton
knockout from single-particle levels exhibit a specific sensitivity to the
effective nuclear density. It is shown that in C the effective nuclear
density for -shell knockout is about twice as high as for -shell
knockout. With current model predictions for the in-medium form factors, one
obtains measurable modifications of the order of 5% in the ratios of the double
polarization observables between those single-particle levels
Measurement of the Polarized Structure Function g_1^p at HERA
We present estimates of possible data on spin-dependent asymmetries in
inclusive scattering of high energy polarized electrons by high energy
polarized protons at HERA, including statistical errors, and discuss systematic
uncertainties. We show that these data would shed light on the small x
behaviour of the polarized structure function g_1, and would reduce
substantially the uncertainty on the determination of the polarized gluon
distribution.Comment: 17 pages, plain latex, 9 figures included by eps
Spin Contents of Nucleons with SU(3) Breaking
We apply a model for SU(3) breaking to the analysis of the spin contents of
the nucleon from the the latest data on first moments of the spin dependent
structure functions and include higher order QCD corrections. The results show
that the value of the total quark spin contribution to the nucleon spin remains about 0.3 and is very
insensitive to SU(3) breaking, while the result for the strange quark
contribution varies considerably with SU(3) breaking.Comment: Six pages of LaTeX plus three figures (tarred, compressed, and
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Quasi-elastic polarization-transfer measurements on the deuteron in anti-parallel kinematics
We present measurements of the polarization-transfer components in the
H reaction, covering a previously unexplored kinematic
region with large positive (anti-parallel) missing momentum, , up
to 220 MeV, and . These measurements, performed
at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI), were motivated by theoretical calculations which
predict small final-state interaction (FSI) effects in these kinematics, making
them favorable for searching for medium modifications of bound nucleons in
nuclei. We find in this kinematic region that the measured
polarization-transfer components and and their ratio agree with the
theoretical calculations, which use free-proton form factors. Using this, we
establish upper limits on possible medium effects that modify the bound
proton's form factor ratio at the level of a few percent. We also
compare the measured polarization-transfer components and their ratio for H
to those of a free (moving) proton. We find that the universal behavior of
H, He and C in the double ratio
is maintained in the positive
missing-momentum region
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Measurements of the Nucleon Form-Factors at Large Momentum Transfers
New measurements of the electric GE(Q2) and magnetic GM(Q2) form factors of the nucleons are reported. The proton data cover the Q2 range from 1.75 to 8.83 (GeV/c)2 and the neutron data from 1.75 to 4.00 (GeV/c)2, more than doubling the range of previous data. Scaled by the dipole fit, GD(Q2), the results forGMp(Q2) /¿pGD(Q2) decrease smoothly from 1.05 to 0.92, while GEp(Q2)/GD(Q2)is consistent with unity. The preliminary results for GMn(Q2) /¿nGD(Q2) are consistent with unity, while GEn is consistent with zero at all values of Q2
Collins and Sivers asymmetries in muonproduction of pions and kaons off transversely polarised protons
Measurements of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries for charged pions and charged and neutral kaons produced in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of high energy muons off transversely polarised protons are presented. The results were obtained using all the available COMPASS proton data, which were taken in the years 2007 and 2010. The Collins asymmetries exhibit in the valence region a non-zero signal for pions and there are hints of non-zero signal also for kaons. The Sivers asymmetries are found to be positive for positive pions and kaons and compatible with zero otherwise. © 2015