Precision measurement of the neutron twist-3 matrix element d(2)(n): probing color forces.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • Double-spin asymmetries and absolute cross sections were measured at large Bjorken x  (0.25≤x≤0.90), in both the deep-inelastic and resonance regions, by scattering longitudinally polarized electrons at beam energies of 4.7 and 5.9 GeV from a transversely and longitudinally polarized (3)He target. In this dedicated experiment, the spin structure function g(2)((3)He) was determined with precision at large x, and the neutron twist-3 matrix element d(2)(n) was measured at ⟨Q(2)⟩ of 3.21 and 4.32  GeV(2)/c(2), with an absolute precision of about 10(-5). Our results are found to be in agreement with lattice QCD calculations and resolve the disagreement found with previous data at ⟨Q(2)⟩=5  GeV(2)/c(2). Combining d(2)(n) and a newly extracted twist-4 matrix element f(2)(n), the average neutron color electric and magnetic forces were extracted and found to be of opposite sign and about 30  MeV/fm in magnitude.
  • Authors

  • Posik, M
  • Flay, D
  • Parno, DS
  • Allada, K
  • Armstrong, W
  • Averett, T
  • Benmokhtar, F
  • Bertozzi, W
  • Camsonne, A
  • Canan, M
  • Cates, GD
  • Chen, C
  • Chen, J-P
  • Choi, S
  • Chudakov, E
  • Cusanno, F
  • Dalton, MM
  • Deconinck, W
  • de Jager, CW
  • Deng, X
  • Deur, A
  • Dutta, C
  • El Fassi, L
  • Franklin, GB
  • Friend, M
  • Gao, H
  • Garibaldi, F
  • Gilad, S
  • Gilman, R
  • Glamazdin, O
  • Golge, S
  • Gomez, J
  • Guo, L
  • Hansen, O
  • Higinbotham, DW
  • Holmstrom, T
  • Huang, J
  • Hyde, C
  • Ibrahim, HF
  • Jiang, X
  • Jin, G
  • Katich, J
  • Kelleher, A
  • Kolarkar, A
  • Korsch, W
  • Kumbartzki, G
  • LeRose, JJ
  • Lindgren, R
  • Liyanage, N
  • Long, Elena
  • Lukhanin, A
  • Mamyan, V
  • McNulty, D
  • Meziani, Z-E
  • Michaels, R
  • Mihovilovič, M
  • Moffit, B
  • Muangma, N
  • Nanda, S
  • Narayan, A
  • Nelyubin, V
  • Norum, B
  • Nuruzzaman
  • Oh, Y
  • Peng, JC
  • Qian, X
  • Qiang, Y
  • Rakhman, A
  • Riordan, S
  • Saha, A
  • Sawatzky, B
  • Shabestari, MH
  • Shahinyan, A
  • Širca, S
  • Solvignon, P
  • Subedi, R
  • Sulkosky, V
  • Tobias, WA
  • Troth, W
  • Wang, D
  • Wang, Y
  • Wojtsekhowski, B
  • Yan, X
  • Yao, H
  • Ye, Y
  • Ye, Z
  • Yuan, L
  • Zhan, X
  • Zhang, Y
  • Zhang, Y-W
  • Zhao, B
  • Zheng, X
  • Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • July 11, 2014
  • Has Subject Area

    Published In

    Keywords

  • Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Pubmed Id

  • 25062166
  • Start Page

  • 022002
  • Volume

  • 113
  • Issue

  • 2