Precise Determination of the Deuteron Spin Structure at Low to Moderate Q² with CLAS and Extraction of the Neutron Contribution
Guler, N. · Fersch, R. G. · Kuhn, S. E. · Bosted, P. · Griffioen, K. A. · Keith, C. · Minehart, R. · Prok, Y. · Adhikari, K. P. · Adikaram, D. · Amaryan, M. J. · Anderson, M. D. · Pereira, S. Anefalos · Ball, J. · Battaglieri, M. · Batourine, V. · Bedlinskiy, I. · Briscoe, W. J. · Brooks, W. K. · Bultmann, S. · Burkert, V. D. · Carman, D. S. · Celentano, A. · Chandavar, S. · Charles, G. · Colaneri, L. · Cole, P. L. · Contalbrigo, M. · Crabb, D. · Crede, V. · Angelo, A. D · Dashyan, N. · Deur, A. · Djalali, C. · Dodge, G. E. · Dupre, R. · Alaoui, A. El · Fassi, L. El · Elouadrhiri, L. · Eugenio, P. · Fedotov, G. · Fegan, S. · Filippi, A. · Fleming, J. A. · Forest, T. A. · Garillon, B. · Garcon, M. · Gevorgyan, N. · 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. · Harrison, N. · Hattawy, M. · Hicks, K. · Ho, D. · Holtrop, M. · Hughes, S. M. · Hyde, C. E. · Ireland, D. G. · Ishkhanov, B. S. · Isupov, E. L. · Jo, H. S. · Joo, K. · Joosten, S. · Keller, D. · Khandaker, M. · Kim, A. · Kim, W. · Klein, A. · Klein, F. J. · Kubarovsky, V. · Kuleshov, S. V. · Livingston, K. · Lu, H. Y. · MacGregor, I. J. D. · McKinnon, B. · Mirazita, M. · Mokeev, V. · Montgomery, R. A. · Movsisyan, A · Camacho, C. Munoz · Nadel-Turonski, P. · Net, L. A. · Niculescu, I. · Osipenko, M. · Ostrovidov, A. I. · Park, K. · Pasyuk, E. · Pisano, S. · Pogorelko, O. · Price, J. W. · Procureur, S. · Ripani, M. · Rizzo, A. · Rosner, G. · Rossi, P. · Roy, P. · Sabatie, F. · Salgado, C. · Schott, D. · Schumacher, R. A. · Seder, E. · Simonyan, A. · Skorodumina, Iu. · Sokhan, D. · Sparveris, N. · Strakovsky, I. I. · Strauch, S. · Sytnik, V. · Tian, Ye · Tkachenko, S. · Ungaro, M. · Voutier, E. · Walford, N. K. · Wei, X. · Weinstein, L. B. · Wood, M. H. · Zachariou, N. · Zana, L. · Zhang, J. · Zhao, Z. W. · Zonta, I.
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We present the final results for the deuteron spin structure functions obtained from the full data set collected with Jefferson Lab's CLAS in 2000-2001. Polarized electrons with energies of 1.6, 2.5, 4.2 and 5.8 GeV were scattered from deuteron (¹⁵ND₃) targets, dynamically polarized along the beam direction, and detected with CLAS. From the measured double spin asymmetry, the virtual photon absorption asymmetry A₁ᵈ and the polarized structure function g₁ᵈ were extracted over a wide kinematic range (0.05 GeV² < Q² < 5 GeV² and 0.9 GeV < W < 3 GeV). We use an unfolding procedure and a parametrization of the corresponding proton results to extract from these data the polarized structure functions A₁ⁿ and g₁ⁿ of the (bound) neutron, which are so far unknown in the resonance region, W < 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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