DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING FROM POLARIZED DEUTERONS

Abstract

The spin-dependent structure function of the deuteron, g_1D, is calculated within a covariant framework. The off-shell structure of the bound nucleon gives corrections to the convolution model at a level of half a percent for x below 0.7, increasing to more than five percent at larger x. Overall, the dominant source of error comes from the lack of knowledge associated with the deuteron D-state, which may introduce an uncertainty in the neutron spin structure function, g_1n, extracted from deuterium data of up to ten percent for x around 0.2.

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• Measurement of the Spin-Dependent Structure Function $g_1(x)$ of the Proton
• Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function
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