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Strange Quark Contribution to the Proton Spin, from Elastic $\vec{e}p$ and $\nu p$ Scattering

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-11-17 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The strangeness contribution to the vector and axial form factors of the proton is presented for momentum transfers in the range 0.45 < Q2Q^2 < 1.0 GeV2^2. The results are obtained via a combined analysis of forward-scattering parity-violating elastic ep\vec{e}p asymmetry data from the G0 and HAPPEx experiments at Jefferson Lab, and elastic νp\nu p and νˉp\bar{\nu}p scattering data from Experiment 734 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The combination of the two data sets allows for the simultaneous extraction of GEsG_E^s, GMsG_M^s, and GAsG_A^s over a significant range of Q2Q^2 for the very first time. Determination of the strange axial form factor GAsG_A^s is vital to an understanding of the strange quark contribution to the proton spin.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0611053,
  title  = {Strange Quark Contribution to the Proton Spin, from Elastic $\vec{e}p$ and $\nu p$ Scattering},
  author = {Stephen Pate},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0611053},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure; proceedings for SPIN 2006; will be published in AIP Conference Proceedings