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Phys. Rev. C 75, 035203 (2007) [7 pages]

Quark-hadron duality in spin structure functions g1p and g1d

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P. E. Bosted et al. CLAS Collaboration
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Received 25 July 2006; published 7 March 2007

New measurements of the spin structure functions of the proton and deuteron g1p(x,Q2) and g1d(x,Q2) in the nucleon resonance region are compared with extrapolations of target-mass-corrected next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD fits to higher energy data. Averaged over the entire resonance region (W<2 GeV), the data and QCD fits are in good agreement in both magnitude and Q2 dependence for Q2>1.7 GeV2/c2. This “global” duality appears to result from cancellations among the prominent “local” resonance regions: in particular strong σ3/2 contributions in the Δ(1232) region appear to be compensated by strong σ1/2 contributions in the resonance region centered on 1.5 GeV. These results are encouraging for the extension of NLO QCD fits to lower W and Q2 than have been used previously.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.75.035203
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.75.035203
PACS:
13.60.Hb, 25.30.Fj, 24.30.Gd