Flavor Decomposition of Nucleon Spin Structure: A Proposed Experiment at Jefferson Lab Hall C
Xiaodong Jiang; Day, Donal B.; Jones, Mark K.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (United States)2004
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (United States)2004
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[en] We propose to measure the semi-inclusive double-spin asymmetries in deep-inelastic (,eh)X and (,eh)X reactions (h = +, -, K+ and K-) on longitudinally polarized NH3 and LiD targets. The high statistic data will allow a leading order five-flavor decomposition (Delta u, Delta d, Delta u, Delta d, Delta s ) of the nucleon spin structure in the region of x = 0.12 ∼ 0.43 at a Q2 of 1.21 ∼ 3.22 GeV2. The combined spin dependent pi+ + pi- yield ratios will be measured, since the acceptance and the hadron efficiencies of the detectors can be accurately determined. Independent of fragmentation functions and parton distributions, the z-dependence (z = 0.38 ∼ 0.71) of the combined ratios provides a build-in test of factorization at the moderate Q2. We estimate statistical uncertainties associated with such measurements
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1 Feb 2004; [vp.]; 8. Conference On The Intersections Of Particle And Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2003); New York, NY (United States); 19-24 May 2003; DOE/ER--40150-2715; AC05-84ER40150; Available from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA
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