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Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for Q^{2}=4  GeV^{2}.

Authors :
Albayrak I
Mamyan V
Christy ME
Ahmidouch A
Arrington J
Asaturyan A
Bodek A
Bosted P
Bradford R
Brash E
Bruell A
Butuceanu C
Coleman SJ
Commisso M
Connell SH
Dalton MM
Danagoulian S
Daniel A
Day DB
Dhamija S
Dunne J
Dutta D
Ent R
Gaskell D
Gasparian A
Gran R
Horn T
Huang L
Huber GM
Jayalath C
Johnson M
Jones MK
Kalantarians N
Liyanage A
Keppel CE
Kinney E
Li Y
Malace S
Manly S
Markowitz P
Maxwell J
Mbianda NN
McFarland KS
Meziane M
Meziani ZE
Mills GB
Mkrtchyan H
Mkrtchyan A
Mulholland J
Nelson J
Niculescu G
Niculescu I
Pentchev L
Puckett A
Punjabi V
Qattan IA
Reimer PE
Reinhold J
Rodriguez VM
Rondon-Aramayo O
Sakuda M
Sakumoto WK
Segbefia E
Seva T
Sick I
Slifer K
Smith GR
Steinman J
Solvignon P
Tadevosyan V
Tajima S
Tvaskis V
Vulcan WF
Walton T
Wesselmann FR
Wood SA
Ye Z
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2019 Jul 12; Vol. 123 (2), pp. 022501.
Publication Year :
2019

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.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
123
Issue :
2
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
31386522
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022501