DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING FROM POLARIZED DEUTERONS
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-01 v1 Nuclear Theory
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9501282,
title = {DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING FROM POLARIZED DEUTERONS},
author = {W. Melnitchouk and G. Piller and A. W. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9501282},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
11 pages, LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures