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High precision determination of the $Q^2$-evolution of the Bjorken Sum

Nuclear Experiment 2014-07-22 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a significantly improved determination of the Bjorken Sum for 0.6Q2\leq Q^{2}\leq4.8 GeV2^{2} using precise new g1pg_{1}^{p} and g1dg_{1}^{d} data taken with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. A higher-twist analysis of the Q2Q^{2}-dependence of the Bjorken Sum yields the twist-4 coefficient f2pn=0.064±0.009±0.0360.032f_{2}^{p-n}=-0.064 \pm0.009\pm_{0.036}^{0.032}. This leads to the color polarizabilities χEpn=0.032±0.024\chi_{E}^{p-n}=-0.032\pm0.024 and χBpn=0.032±0.013\chi_{B}^{p-n}=0.032\pm0.013. The strong force coupling is determined to be αs\mboxMS(MZ2)=0.1124±0.0061\alpha_{s}^{\overline{\mbox{ MS}}}(M_{Z}^{2})=0.1124\pm0.0061, which has an uncertainty a factor of 1.5 smaller than earlier estimates using polarized DIS data. This improvement makes the comparison between αs\alpha_{s} extracted from polarized DIS and other techniques a valuable test of QCD.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7854,
  title  = {High precision determination of the $Q^2$-evolution of the Bjorken Sum},
  author = {A. Deur and Y. Prok and V. Burkert and D. Crabb and F. -X. Girod and K. A. Griffioen and N. Guler and S. E. Kuhn and N. Kvaltine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7854},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Published in Phys. Rev. D. V1: 8 pages, 3 figures. V2: Updated references; Included threshold matching in \alpha_s evolution. Corrected a typo on the uncertainty for \Lambda_QCD. V3: Published version