An investigation of the spin structure of the proton in deep inelastic scattering of polarized muons on polarized protons.

The European Muon collaboration Ashman, J. ; Badelek, B. ; Baum, Guenter ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 328 (1989) 1, 1989.
Inspire Record 280143 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.49587

The spin asymmetry in deep inelastic scattering of longitudinally polarised muons by longitudinally polarised protons has been measured in the range 0.01<×<0.7. The spin dependent structure function g 1 ( x ) for the proton has been determined and, combining the data with earlier SLAC measurements, its integral over x found to be 0.126±0.010(stat.)±0.015(syst.), in disagreement with the Ellis-Jaffe sum rule. Assuming the validity of the Biorken sum rule, this result implies a significant negative value for the integral of g 1 for the neutron. These integrals lead to the conclusion, in the naïve quark parton model, that the total quark spin constitutes a rather small fraction of the spin of the nucleon. Results are also presented on the asymmetries in inclusive hadron production which are consistent with the above picture.

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THE MEAN Q**2 FOR EACH OF THE 10 VALUES OF X BELOW ARE 3.5,4.5,6.0, 8.010.3,12.9,15.2,18.0,22.5,29.5.

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A Measurement of the Nucleon Structure Functions

Anderson, H.L. ; Fine, R.M. ; Heisterberg, R.H. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 20 (1979) 2645, 1979.
Inspire Record 141067 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.4434

Measurements have been made of the inclusive scattering of 96, 147, and 219 GeV muons from hydrogen, and of 147 GeV muons from deuterium. Results are presented for the nucleon structure function F2(x,Q2) [≡νW2(x,Q2)] for 10<ν<200 GeV and 0.2<Q2<80 GeV2. The value of F2 rises with Q2 at small x, and falls with Q2 at large x, in agreement with the ideas of quantum chromodynamics. An average value of the ratio σLσT≡R=0.52±0.35 has been obtained for the region 0.003<x<0.10 and 0.4<Q2<30 GeV2. The values of F2 from this experiment have been combined with those from other charged-lepton scattering experiments to determine moments of the structure functions. The variation with Q2 of these moments is used to derive values for Λ, taking into account corrections up to second order in αs. The fit to the data is very good.

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MUON SCATTERING AT 219-GEV AND THE PROTON STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS.

Gordon, B.A. ; Quirk, T.W. ; Anderson, H.L. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 41 (1978) 615-618, 1978.
Inspire Record 132552 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.21001

Results on the protron structure function, F2, are presented for 0.3<q2<80.0 GeV2 and 10<ν<200 GeV. The results support the conclusions of earlier work at 97 and 147 GeV that scaling is violated. A new value for R=σSσT=0.44±0.25 has been obtained using all the Fermilab proton measurements.

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