Deep inelastic scattering from polarized deuterons
Sep, 199415 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 346 (1995) 165-171
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9501282 [hep-ph]
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
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