Precision measurement of the proton and deuteron spin structure functions g2 and asymmetries A2
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Authors
E155 Collaboration
Abe, K.
Akagi, T.
Anthony, P L.
Antonov, R D.
Arnold, R G.
Averett, T.
Band, H R.
Bauer, J M.
Borel, H.
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2003
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Elsevier
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We have measured the spin structure functions g2p and g2d and the virtual photon asymmetries A2p and A2d over the kinematic range 0.02 < x < 0.8 and 0.7 < Q^2 < 20 GeV^2 by scattering 29.1 and 32.3 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons from transversely polarized NH3 and 6LiD targets. Our measured g2 approximately follows the twist-2 Wandzura-Wilczek calculation. The twist-3 reduced matrix elements d2p and d2n are less than two standard deviations from zero. The data are inconsistent with the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule if there is no pathological behavior as x->0. The Efremov-Leader-Teryaev integral is consistent with zero within our measured kinematic range. The absolute value of A2 is significantly smaller than the sqrt[R(1+A1)/2] limit.
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The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(02)03015-0
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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4 p.
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Anthony, P. L., et al. "Precision measurement of the proton and deuteron spin structure functions g2 and asymmetries A2." Physics Letters B 553.1-2 (2003): 18-24.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.