Precision measurement of the deuteron spin structure function g1(d)

The E143 collaboration Abe, K. ; Akagi, T. ; Anthony, P.L. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 25-28, 1995.
Inspire Record 393667 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.19611

We report on a high-statistics measurement of the deuteron spin structure function g1d at a beam energy of 29 GeV in the kinematic range 0.029<x<0.8 and 1<Q2<10 (GeV /c)2. The integral γ1d=∫1g1ddx evaluated at fixed Q2=3 (GeV /c)2 gives 0.042±0.003(stat)±0.004(syst). Combining this result with our earlier measurement of g1p, we find γ1p−γ1n=0.163±0.010(stat)±0.016(syst), which agrees with the prediction of the Bjorken sum rule with O(αs3) corrections, γ1p−γ1n=0.171±0.008. We find the quark contribution to the proton helicity to be Δq=0.30±0.06.

2 data tables

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Values of G1 computed assuming G1/F1 is independent of Q**2 and evaluated at Q**2 = 3 GeV**2.