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On Deuteron Spin Dependent Structure Function $ g_{2}(x)$ in Relativistic Model of Deuteron

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

The spin dependent deuteron structure functions are investigated in the relativistic model of deuteron. It is shown that the deuteron structure function g2(X)g_{2}(X) can be considered properly only in the infinite momentum frame where the virtual photon has pure transverse components (q0=q30q_{0}=-q_{3}\rightarrow 0 at P P\rightarrow \infty ), whereas in the conventional Breit frame the impulse approximation for g2(X)g_{2}(X) may be violated due to qqˉq\bar{q} pair creation by the virtual photon. It is shown that due to relativistic effects the deuteron structure function g2(X)g_{2}(X) has a nontrivial contribution determined by first derivative of the nucleon structure function g1(x)g_{1}(x). Such contribution is small but it increases when X1X \rightarrow 1. It may achieve about 10 \% at X0.75 X \sim 0.75 and could be essentially larger for the transverse structure function g(X).g_{\perp}(X).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9510297,
  title  = {On Deuteron Spin Dependent Structure Function $ g_{2}(x)$ in Relativistic Model of Deuteron},
  author = {N. L. Ter-Isaakyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9510297},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, uuencoded postcript file with two figures