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Precision measurements of A1N in the deep inelastic regime
Physics Letters B
  • Diana S Parno, University of Washington
  • David Flay, Temple University
  • Matthew Posik, Temple University
  • Kalyan C Allada, University of Kentucky
  • Whitney Armstrong, Temple University
  • Todd Averett, College of William and Mary
  • Fatiha Benmokhtar, Carnegie Mellon University
  • William Bertozzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Alexandre Camsonne, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Mustafa Canan, Old Dominion University
  • Gordon D Cates, University of Virginia
  • Chunhua Chen, Hampton University
  • Jian-Ping Chen, College of William and Mary
  • Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University
  • Eugene Chudakov, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Francesco Cusanno, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
  • Mark M Dalton, University of Virginia
  • Wouter Deconick, College of William and Mary
  • Kees W de Jager, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Xiaochao Deng, University of Virginia
  • Alexandre Deur, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Chiranjib Dutta, University of Kentucky
  • Lamiaa El Fassi, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • Gregg B Franklin, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Megan Friend, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Haiyan Gao, Duke University
  • Franco Garibaldi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
  • Shalev Gilad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ronald Gilman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Oleksandr Glamazdin, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology
  • Serkan Golge, Old Dominion University
  • Javier Gomez, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Lei Guo, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Ole Hansen, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Douglas W Higenbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Timothy Holmstrom, Longwood University
  • Jacob Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Charles Hyde, Old Dominion University
  • Hassan F Ibrahim, Cairo University
  • Xiaodong Jiang, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • Ge Jin, University of Virginia
  • Joseph Katich, College of William and Mary
  • Aidan Kelleher, College of William and Mary
  • Ameya Kolarkar, University of Kentucky
  • Wolfgang Korsch, University of Kentucky
  • Gerfried Kumbartzki, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • John J LeRose, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Richard Lindgren, University of Virginia
  • Nilanga Liyanage, University of Virginia
  • Elena Long, Kent State University
  • Alex Lukhanin, Temple University
  • Vahe Mamyan, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dustin McNulty, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Zein-Eddine Meziani, Temple University
  • Robert Michaels, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Miha Mihovilovic, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Bryan Moffit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Navaphon Muangma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sirish Nanda, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Amrendra Narayan, Mississippi State University
  • Vladimir Nelyubin, University of Virginia
  • Blaine Norum, University of Virginia
  • Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman, Mississippi State University
  • Yoomin Oh, Seoul National University
  • Jen-Chieh Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Xin Qian, Duke University
  • Yi Qiang, Duke University
  • Abdurahim Rakhman, Syracuse University
  • Seamus Riordan, University of Virginia
  • Arun Saha, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Bradley Sawatzky, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Mitra H Shabestari, University of Virginia
  • Albert Shahinyan, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Simon Širca, University of Ljubljana
  • Patricia Solvignon, Argonne National Lab
  • Ramesh Subedi, University of Virginia
  • Vincent Sulkosky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • William A Tobias, University of Virginia
  • Wolfgang Troth, Longwood University
  • Diancheng Wang, University of Virginia
  • Youcai Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Xinhu Yan, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Huan Yao, Temple University
  • Yunxiu Ye, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Zhihong Ye, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Lulin Yuan, Hampton University
  • Xiaohui Zhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Li Zhang, Lanzhou University
  • Yawei Zhang, Lanzhou University
  • Bo Zhao, College of William and Mary
  • Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Publication Date
5-11-2015
Abstract

We have performed precision measurements of the double-spin virtual-photon asymmetry A1A1 on the neutron in the deep inelastic scattering regime, using an open-geometry, large-acceptance spectrometer and a longitudinally and transversely polarized 3He target. Our data cover a wide kinematic range 0.277≤x≤0.5480.277≤x≤0.548 at an average Q2Q2 value of 3.078 (GeV/c)2, doubling the available high-precision neutron data in this x range. We have combined our results with world data on proton targets to make a leading-order extraction of the ratio of polarized-to-unpolarized parton distribution functions for up quarks and for down quarks in the same kinematic range. Our data are consistent with a previous observation of anA1n zero crossing near x=0.5x=0.5. We find no evidence of a transition to a positive slope in(Δd+Δd¯)/(d+d¯) up to x=0.548x=0.548.

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Citation Information
Diana S Parno, David Flay, Matthew Posik, Kalyan C Allada, et al.. "Precision measurements of A1N in the deep inelastic regime" Physics Letters B Vol. 744 (2015) p. 309 - 314
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/todd-averett/37/