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Spin-dependent sum rules connecting real and virtual Compton scattering verified

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-04-04 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a detailed derivation of the two sum rules relating the spin polarizabilities measured in real, virtual, and doubly-virtual Compton scattering. For example, the polarizability δLT\delta_{LT}, accessed in inclusive electron scattering, is related to the spin polarizability γE1E1\gamma_{E1E1} and the slope of generalized polarizabilities P(M1,M1)1P(L1,L1)1P^{(M1,M1)1}-P^{(L1,L1)1}, measured in, respectively, the real and the virtual Compton scattering. We verify these sum rules in different variants of chiral perturbation theory, discuss their empirical verification for the proton, and prospect their use in studies of the nucleon spin structure.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01947,
  title  = {Spin-dependent sum rules connecting real and virtual Compton scattering verified},
  author = {Vadim Lensky and Vladimir Pascalutsa and Marc Vanderhaeghen and Chung Wen Kao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01947},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX 4, typos corrected, matches published version

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