[d2n-analysis-talk] PANIC Abstract [Due Tuesday, March 1 2011]

[David Flay]

I've made a number of grammatical changes... this looks to be the final (?)
version of the abstract.  I plan on submitting this on Monday, as I'll be
traveling to JLab on Tuesday of next week.

   The quantity d_2, known as the twist-three matrix element, is a measure
of the average restoring Lorentz color force experienced by a quark inside a
polarized nucleon after it is struck by a virtual photon in electron Deep
Inelastic Scattering (DIS).   With its information encoded in both spin
structure functions g_1 and g_2 in the quark valence region at large Bjorken
x, this confining local force is a result of the remnant di-quark system
attracting the struck quark.  While bag- and chiral soliton-model
calculations for the neutron d_2 are consistent with those of lattice QCD,
current experimental data differ by approximately two standard deviations
from those theoretical results.

To address this issue, the experiment E06-014 was carried out from February
to March of 2009 at Jefferson Lab.  It consisted of measuring double-spin
asymmetries and the total cross section via scattering a longitudinally
polarized electron beam off of a longitudinally or transversely polarized
He-3 target, allowing for the construction of the neutron d_2.  The
experiment covered excitation energies in the resonance and DIS valence
quark regions.

Preliminary results concerning the asymmetries and cross sections will be
presented.


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David Flay
Physics Department
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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e-mail: flay at jlab.org
           flay at temple.edu

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