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Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin Asymmetry A1 n and Spin-Flavor Decomposition in the Valence Quark Region

  • X. Zheng*
  • , K. Aniol
  • , D. S. Armstrong
  • , T. D. Averett
  • , W. Bertozzi
  • , S. Binet
  • , E. Burtin
  • , E. Busato
  • , C. Butuceanu
  • , J. Calarco
  • , A. Camsonne
  • , G. D. Cates
  • , Z. Chai
  • , J. P. Chen
  • , Seonho Choi
  • , E. Chudakov
  • , F. Cusanno
  • , R. De Leo
  • , A. Deur
  • , S. Dieterich
  • D. Dutta, J. M. Finn, S. Frullani, H. Gao, J. Gao, F. Garibaldi, S. Gilad, R. Gilman, J. Gomez, J. O. Hansen, D. W. Higinbotham, W. Hinton, T. Horn, C. W. De Jager, X. Jiang, L. Kaufman, J. Kelly, W. Korsch, K. Kramer, J. LeRose, D. Lhuillier, N. Liyanage, D. J. Margaziotis, F. Marie, P. Markowitz, K. McCormick, Z. E. Meziani, R. Michaels, B. Moffit, S. Nanda, D. Neyret, S. K. Phillips, A. Powell, T. Pussieux, B. Reitz, J. Roche, R. Roche, M. Roedelbronn, G. Ron, M. Rvachev, A. Saha, N. Savvinov, J. Singh, S. Širca, K. Slifer, P. Solvignon, P. Souder, D. J. Steiner, S. Strauch, V. Sulkosky, A. Tobias, G. Urciuoli, A. Vacheret, B. Wojtsekhowski, H. Xiang, Y. Xiao, F. Xiong, B. Zhang, L. Zhu, X. Zhu, P. A. Zołnierczuk
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The neutron spin asymmetry A1n with high precision at three kinematic in the deep inelastic region at x=0.33, 0.47 and Q 2=2.7, 3.5 and 4.8(GeV/c)2, respectively was measured. It was shown that A1n crosses zero around x=0.47 and becomes significantly positive at x=0.60. The polarized quark distributions, combined with the world proton data were also extracted. The hadron helicity conservation (HHC) mechanism, based on leading-order perturbative quantum chromodynamics (PQCD), where the quark orbital angular momentum (OAM) was assumed to be zero was discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012004
Pages (from-to)120041-120045
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume92
Issue number1
StatePublished - 9 Jan 2004
Externally publishedYes

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