1. Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q^{2}=4 GeV^{2}
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Albayrak, I., Mamyan, V., Christy, M. E., Ahmidouch, A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Bodek, A., Bosted, P., Bradford, R., Brash, E., Bruell, A., Butuceanu, C., Coleman, S. J., Commisso, M., Connell, S. H., Dalton, M. M., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Day, D. B., Dhamija, S., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gran, R., Horn, T., Huang, Liting, Huber, G. M., Jayalath, C., Johnson, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Liyanage, A., Keppel, C. E., Kinney, E., Li, Y., Malace, S., Manly, S., Markowitz, P., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, N. N., McFarland, K. S., Meziane, M., Meziani, Z. E., Mills, G. B., Mkrtchyan, H., Mkrtchyan, A., Mulholland, J., Nelson, J., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Pentchev, L., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qattan, I. A., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon- Aramayo, O., Sakuda, M., Sakumoto, W. K., Segbefia, E., Seva, T., Sick, I., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Steinman, J., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tajima, S., Tvaskis, V., Vulcan, W. F., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., Ye, Zhihong, and E06-009 Collaboration
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General Physics ,Engineering ,E06-009 Collaboration ,Nuclear Theory ,Physical Sciences ,Nuclear Experiment ,nucl-ex ,nucleon nonsinglet moments ,Mathematical Sciences - Abstract
We present extractions of the nucleon nonsinglet moments utilizing new precision data on the deuteron F_{2} structure function at large Bjorken-x determined via the Rosenbluth separation technique at Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall C. These new data are combined with a complementary set of data on the proton previously measured in Hall C at similar kinematics and world datasets on the proton and deuteron at lower x measured at SLAC and CERN. The new Jefferson Lab data provide coverage of the upper third of the x range, crucial for precision determination of the higher moments. In contrast to previous extractions, these moments have been corrected for nuclear effects in the deuteron using a new global fit to the deuteron and proton data. The obtained experimental moments represent an order of magnitude improvement in precision over previous extractions using high x data. Moreover, recent exciting developments in lattice QCD calculations provide a first ever comparison of these new experimental results with calculations of moments carried out at the physical pion mass, as well as a new approach that first calculates the quark distributions directly before determining moments.
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- 2019