A Precision Measurement of the Neutron Twist-3 Matrix Element d2nd_2^n: Probing Color Forces

Collaboration
Apr 15, 2014
7 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 113 (2014) 2, 022002
  • Published: Jul 11, 2014
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Report number:
  • JLAB-PHY-14-1876

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Abstract: (APS)

Double-spin asymmetries and absolute cross sections were measured at large Bjorken x(0.25x0.90), in both the deep-inelastic and resonance regions, by scattering longitudinally polarized electrons at beam energies of 4.7 and 5.9 GeV from a transversely and longitudinally polarized He3 target. In this dedicated experiment, the spin structure function g2He3 was determined with precision at large x, and the neutron twist-3 matrix element d2n was measured at Q2 of 3.21 and 4.32GeV2/c2, with an absolute precision of about 10-5. Our results are found to be in agreement with lattice QCD calculations and resolve the disagreement found with previous data at Q2=5GeV2/c2. Combining d2n and a newly extracted twist-4 matrix element f2n, the average neutron color electric and magnetic forces were extracted and found to be of opposite sign and about 30  MeV/fm in magnitude.

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  • Corrected a typo in the author list and Figure 1 legend. 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
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  • color: force
  • structure function: spin
  • color: polarizability
  • precision measurement
  • quantum chromodynamics: lattice
  • spin: asymmetry