Precision measurements of the nucleon strange form factors at Q2∼0.1 GeV2

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Acha, A. [1 ]
Aniol, K. A.
Armstrong, D. S.
Arrington, J.
Averett, T.
Bailey, S. L.
Barber, J.
Beck, A.
Benaoum, H.
Benesch, J.
Bertin, P. Y.
Bosted, P.
Butaru, F.
Burtin, E.
Cates, G. D.
Chao, Y. -C.
Chen, J. -P.
Chudakov, E.
Cisbani, E.
Craver, B.
Cusanno, F.
De Leo, R.
Decowski, P.
Deur, A.
Feuerbach, R. J.
Finn, J. M.
Frullani, S.
Fuchs, S. A.
Fuoti, K.
Gilman, R.
Glesener, L. E.
Grimm, K.
Grames, J. M.
Hansen, J. O.
Hansknecht, J.
Higinbotham, D. W.
Holmes, R.
Holmstrom, T.
Ibrahim, H.
de Jager, C. W.
Jiang, X.
Katich, J.
Kaufman, L. J.
Kelleher, A.
King, P. M.
Kolarkar, A.
Kowalski, S.
Kuchina, E.
Kumar, K. S.
Lagamba, L.
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[1] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[2] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
[3] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[4] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[5] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[6] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[7] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[8] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[9] Univ Clermont Ferrand, CNRS, IN2P3, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[10] Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
[11] CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, SPhN, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[12] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[15] Univ Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[16] Smith Coll, Northampton, MA 01063 USA
[17] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA
[18] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[19] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[20] Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[21] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, Gatchina 188350, Russia
[22] Kharkov Phys & Technol Inst, UA-310108 Kharkov, Ukraine
[23] Jozef Stefan Inst, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
[24] Duke Univ, TUNL, Durham, NC 27706 USA
[25] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[26] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[27] Univ Sci & Technol China, Anhua 230026, Peoples R China
[28] Inst Atom Energy, Beijing 102413, Peoples R China
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.032301
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report new measurements of the parity-violating asymmetry A(PV) in elastic scattering of 3 GeV electrons off hydrogen and He-4 targets with <theta(lab)> approximate to 6.0 degrees. The He-4 result is A(PV) = (+6.40 +/- 0.23(stat) +/- 0.12(syst)) x 10(-6). The hydrogen result is A(PV) = (-1.58 +/- 0.12(stat) +/- 0.04(syst)) x 10(-6). These results significantly improve constraints on the electric and magnetic strange form factors G(E)(s) and G(M)(s). We extract G(E)(s) = 0.002 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.007 at < Q(2)> = 0.077 GeV2, and G(E)(s) + 0.09G(M)(s) = 0.007 +/- 0.011 +/- 0.006 at < Q(2)> = 0.109 GeV2, providing new limits on the role of strange quarks in the nucleon charge and magnetization distributions.
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