Deep inelastic scattering from polarized deuterons

Sep, 1994
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 346 (1995) 165-171
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TPR-94-22,
  • ADP-94-16-T-157,
  • ADP-94-16-T157,
  • ACCEPTED-FOR-PUBLICATION-IN-PHYSICS --LETTERS-B.

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Abstract:
The spin-dependent structure function of the deuteron, g_1D, is calculated within a covariant framework. The off-shell structure of the bound nucleon gives corrections to the convolution model at a level of half a percent for x below 0.7, increasing to more than five percent at larger x. Overall, the dominant source of error comes from the lack of knowledge associated with the deuteron D-state, which may introduce an uncertainty in the neutron spin structure function, g_1n, extracted from deuterium data of up to ten percent for x around 0.2.
Note:
  • 11 pages, LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures
  • lepton deuteron: deep inelastic scattering
  • deep inelastic scattering: lepton deuteron
  • deuteron: structure function
  • structure function: x-dependence
  • structure function: polarization
  • polarization: structure function
  • n: structure function
  • effect: off-shell
  • nuclear physics: correction
  • correction: relativistic