Precision measurement of the neutron twist-3 matrix element d2n: Probing color forces

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

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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 He3 target. In this dedicated experiment, the spin structure function g2He3 was determined with precision at large x, and the neutron twist-3 matrix element d2n was measured at 〈Q2〉 of 3.21 and 4.32GeV2/c2, 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 〈Q2〉=5GeV2/c2. Combining d2n and a newly extracted twist-4 matrix element f2n, the average neutron color electric and magnetic forces were extracted and found to be of opposite sign and about 30MeV/fm in magnitude.

Original languageEnglish
Article number022002
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume113
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes

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