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Phys. Rev. D 58, 112001 (1998) [17 pages]

Spin asymmetries A1 and structure functions g1 of the proton and the deuteron from polarized high energy muon scattering

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B. Adeva et al. (Spin Muon Collaboration)
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Received 18 May 1998; published 19 October 1998

We present the final results of the spin asymmetries A1 and the spin structure functions g1 of the proton and the deuteron in the kinematic range 0.0008<x<0.7 and 0.2<Q2<100GeV2. For the determination of A1, in addition to the usual method which employs inclusive scattering events and includes a large radiative background at low x, we use a new method which minimizes the radiative background by selecting events with at least one hadron as well as a muon in the final state. We find that this hadron method gives smaller errors for x<0.02, so it is combined with the usual method to provide the optimal set of results.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.112001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.112001
PACS:
13.60.Hb, 13.88.+e