1. Measurement of the x- and Q2-dependence of the asymmetry A1 on the nucleon
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L. Elouadrhiri, R. A. Miskimen, M. Khandaker, B. McKinnon, G. Rosner, I. I. Strakovsky, R. W. Gothe, M. Bellis, D. Branford, P. Rossi, K. Y. Kim, A. Deur, S. V. Kuleshov, H. G. Juengst, K. S. Egiyan, P. V. Degtyarenko, P. Dragovitsch, M. Battaglieri, M. Nozar, D. J. Tedeschi, M. Taiuti, I. Bedlinskiy, L. Todor, J. P. Cummings, D. Doughty, F. X. Girod, S. Niccolai, D. Protopopescu, Laird Kramer, J. Hardie, V. Gyurjyan, R. De Masi, B. E. Stokes, F. Ronchetti, R. A. Schumacher, P. Corvisiero, V. P. Kubarovsky, G. S. Adams, D. Heddle, Brian Raue, M. Mirazita, G. Ricco, Dinko Pocanic, L. C. Smith, S. Tkachenko, R. Bradford, K. Lukashin, Y. G. Sharabian, O. Pogorelko, E. Wolin, S. McAleer, S. E. Kuhn, V. Sapunenko, B. S. Ishkhanov, Ji Li, Jean Laget, N. Benmouna, N. Pivnyuk, Rakhsha Nasseripour, B. Carnahan, L. C. Dennis, B. E. Bonner, M. Guillo, C. Tur, J. Napolitano, A. I. Ostrovidov, R. Fatemi, A. C S Lima, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Cords, Marco A. Huertas, H. Avakian, E. S. Smith, K. Park, A. V. Vlassov, D. G. Ireland, M. R. Niroula, V. Batourine, B. Zhao, Y. Ilieva, E. L. Isupov, R. Suleiman, I. Hleiqawi, L. Guo, S. Bültmann, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, H. S. Jo, E. Golovatch, Michael L. Williams, P. Bosted, S. L. Careccia, James Mueller, G. S. Mutchler, R. DeVita, M. Ripani, S. A. Morrow, Atilla Gonenc, M. MacCormick, C. Djalali, F. W. Hersman, T. A. Forest, M. Anghinolfi, P. D. Rubin, S. Stepanyan, A. Cazes, G. Gavalian, J. W. Price, S. Boiarinov, Maryam Moteabbed, B. M. Preedom, N. A. Baltzell, Sylvain Bouchigny, J. P. Ball, Y. Prok, K. L. Giovanetti, Michael Dugger, A. Yegneswaran, Shifeng Chen, K. V. Dharmawardane, J. Pierce, M. Kossov, Avraham Klein, Jens H. Kuhn, A. Stavinsky, Larry Weinstein, P. Ambrozewicz, E. Pasyuk, L. M. Qin, K. A. Griffioen, H. O. Funsten, P. Coltharp, U. Thoma, C. Keith, Lorenzo Zana, D. P. Weygand, S. A. Dytman, Hall Crannell, M. M. Ito, N. Baillie, J. T. Goetz, G. V. O'Rielly, C. Paterson, M. Klusman, K. Livingston, V. Crede, Z. W. Zhao, Frank Klein, D. G. Crabb, J. R. Calarco, S. Strauch, D. G. Jenkins, C. Salgado, J. D. Kellie, G. E. Dodge, S. Pozdniakov, N. Guler, J. W C McNabb, M. D. Mestayer, I. Niculescu, Nikolay Shvedunov, D. Lawrence, M. Guidal, D. I. Sober, S. S. Stepanyan, M. Osipenko, S. Barrow, F. Sabatié, Michael Vineyard, K. Beard, M. Garçon, B. Mecking, G. Riccardi, J. Shaw, C. Butuceanu, Michael Wood, W. K. Brooks, K. Hafidi, V. S. Serov, Victor Mokeev, M. Ungaro, K. Joo, J. Yun, J. P. Santoro, Roy Thompson, K. Kim, J. J. Manak, P. Eugenio, J. Zhang, H. Bagdasaryan, P. Collins, Daniel S. Carman, C. Hadjidakis, C. E. Hyde-Wright, M. Bektasoglu, J. Langheinrich, S. A. Philips, G. Niculescu, M. Holtrop, Hong Lu, P. L. Cole, P. Nadel-Turonski, Tsutomu Mibe, B. B. Niczyporuk, J. Lachniet, A. Tkabladze, D. Rowntree, R. S. Hakobyan, J. Donnelly, O. P. Dzyubak, R. A. Niyazov, R. J. Feuerbach, L. Morand, P. Stoler, E. De Sanctis, K. Hicks, W. Kim, Susan Taylor, K. Mikhailov, H. Egiyan, N. Markov, Barry Ritchie, G. Asryan, H. Denizli, A. V. Skabelin, R. C. Minehart, C. A. Meyer, G. V. Fedotov, and E. Polli
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Quark ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Proton ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Momentum transfer ,Quark model ,Parton ,01 natural sciences ,Asymmetry ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Invariant mass ,010306 general physics ,Nucleon ,media_common - Abstract
We report results for the virtual photon asymmetry A{sub 1} on the nucleon from new Jefferson Lab measurements. The experiment, which used the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer and longitudinally polarized proton ({sup 15}NH{sub 3}) and deuteron ({sup 15}ND{sub 3}) targets, collected data with a longitudinally polarized electron beam at energies between 1.6 GeV and 5.7 GeV. In the present paper, we concentrate on our results for A{sub 1}(x,Q{sup 2}) and the related ratio g{sub 1}/F{sub 1}(x,Q{sup 2}) in the resonance and the deep inelastic regions for our lowest and highest beam energies, covering a range in momentum transfer Q{sup 2} from 0.05 to 5.0 GeV{sup 2} and in final-state invariant mass W up to about 3 GeV. Our data show detailed structure in the resonance region, which leads to a strong Q{sup 2}--dependence of A{sub 1}(x,Q{sup 2}) for W below 2 GeV. At higher W, a smooth approach to the scaling limit, established by earlier experiments, can be seen, but A{sub 1}(x,Q{sup 2}) is not strictly Q{sup 2}--independent. We add significantly to the world data set at high x, up to x = 0.6. Our data exceed the SU(6)-symmetric quark model expectation for both the proton and the deuteron whilemore » being consistent with a negative d-quark polarization up to our highest x. This data set should improve next-to-leading order (NLO) pQCD fits of the parton polarization distributions.« less
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- 2006