1. Next-to-leading order QCD analysis of polarized deep inelastic scattering data
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Abe, K., Akagi, T., Anderson, B. D., Anthony, P. L., Arnold, R. G., Averett, T., Band, H. R., Berisso, C. M., Bogorad, P., Borel, H., Bosted, P. E., Breton, V., Buenerd, M. J., Cates, G. D., Chupp, T. E., Churchwell, S., Coulter, K. P., Daoudi, M., Decowski, P., Erickson, R., Fellbaum, J. N., Fonvieille, H., Gearhart, R., Ghazikhanian, V., Griffioen, K. A., Hicks, R. S., Holmes, R., Hughes, E. W., Igo, G., Sebastien Incerti, Johnson, J. R., Kahl, W., Khayat, M., Kolomensky, Yu G., Kuhn, S. E., Kumar, K., Kuriki, M., Lombard-Nelsen, R., Manley, D. M., Marroncle, J., Maruyama, T., Marvin, T., Meyer, W., Meziani, Z. -E, Miller, D., Mitchell, G., Olson, M., Peterson, G. A., Petratos, G. G., Pitman, R., Prepost, R., Raines, P., Raue, B. A., Reyna, D., Rochester, L. S., Rock, S. E., Romalis, M. V., Sabatie, F., Shapiro, G., Shaw, J., Smith, T. B., Sorrell, L., Souder, P. A., Staley, F., Lorant, S. St, Stuart, L. M., Suekane, F., Szalata, Z. M., Terrien, Y., Thompson, A. K., Toole, T., Wang, X., Watson, J. W., Welsh, R. C., Wesselmann, F. R., Wright, T., Young, C. C., Youngman, B., Yuta, H., Zhang, W. -M, Zyla, P., Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), E154, and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics ,Quantum chromodynamics ,Quark ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Valence (chemistry) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Perturbative QCD ,Deep inelastic scattering ,01 natural sciences ,Gluon ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,0103 physical sciences ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutron ,Sum rule in quantum mechanics ,010306 general physics - Abstract
We present a Next-to-Leading order perturbative QCD analysis of world data on the spin dependent structure functions $g_1^p, g_1^n$, and $g_1^d$, including the new experimental information on the $Q^2$ dependence of $g_1^n$. Careful attention is paid to the experimental and theoretical uncertainties. The data constrain the first moments of the polarized valence quark distributions, but only qualitatively constrain the polarized sea quark and gluon distributions. The NLO results are used to determine the $Q^2$ dependence of the ratio $g_1/F_1$ and evolve the experimental data to a constant $Q^2 = 5 GeV^2$. We determine the first moments of the polarized structure functions of the proton and neutron and find agreement with the Bjorken sum rule., Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures; final version to be published in Phys. Lett. B. References updated. Uses elsart.cls version 1996/04/22, 2e-1.41
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- 1997
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