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.

7 data tables

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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