We present a description, including relevant formulas and numerical estimates, of a set of polarization transfer experiments which appear to offer a feasible way to separate the deuteron charge and quadrupole form factors and measure the neutron and proton electric form factors. The experiments require a 2 to 4 GeV high-intensity, highduty factor, longitudinally polarized electron beam and require that the polarization of the recoiling hadron be measured in a second, analyzing, scattering. The relevant asymmetries are fairly large, and our calculations show that they are sensitive to different models obtained from existing data. Attention is called to the fact that the proposed deuteron measurements will require new 10% measurements of vector and tensor analyzing powers of deuterons with kinetic energy from 150 to 450 MeV. NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Analysis of electron polarization transfer experiments to measure Gz&, oz", separate d monopole and quadrupole form factors.
The neutron longitudinal and transverse asymmetries A n 1 and A n 2 have been extracted from deep inelastic scattering of polarized electrons by a polarized 3 He target at incident energies of 19.42, 22.66 and 25.51 GeV. The measurement allows for the determination of the neutron spin structure functions g n 1 (x; Q 2 ) and g n 2 (x; Q 2 ) over the range 0:03 < x < 0:6 at an average Q 2 of 2 (GeV=c) 2 . The data are used for the evaluation of the Ellis-Ja e and Bjorken sum rules. The neutron spin structure function g n 1 (x; Q 2 ) is small and negative within the range of our measurement, yielding an integral R 0:6 0:03 g n 1 (x)dx = 0:028 0:006 (stat) 0:006 (syst). Assuming Regge behavior at low x, we extract n 1 =
Relativistic formulae for the deuteron electromagnetic form factors are calculated in the impulse approximation retaining terms to all orders in Q2/M2 z wc>2. The formulae are given as double integrals over the deuteron wave functions in momentum space, and hence can be evaluated for any deuteron model. We evaluate these formulae numerically for 9 different deuteron models: Reid soft core, two Lomon-Feshbach models,
The spin structure function of the neutron gr has been determined over the range 0.03 < x < 0.6 at an average Q2 of 2 (GeV/c)2 by measuring the asymmetry in deep inelastic scattering of polarized electrons from a polarized 3He target at energies between 19 and 26 GeV. The integral of the neutron spin structure function is fo. nd to be Ji g?(x) dx =-0.022 f 0.011. Earlier reported proton results 2. .- .-_together with the Bjorken sum rule predict &r g?(x) dx =-0.059 f 0.019.
We have measured the spin structure functions g p 2 and g d 2 and the virtual photon asymmetries A p 2 and A d 2 over the kinematic range 0.02 ≤ x ≤ 0.8 and 0.7 ≤ Q 2 ≤ 20 GeV 2 by scattering 29.1 and 32.3 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons from transversely polarized NH3 and 6 LiD targets. Our measured g2 approximately follows the twist-2 Wandzura-Wilczek calculation. The twist-3 reduced matrix elements d p 2 and d n 2 are less than two standard deviations from zero. The data are inconsistent with the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule if there is no pathological behavior as x → 0. The Efremov-Leader-Teryaev integral is consistent with zero within our measured kinematic range. The absolute value of A2 is significantly smaller than the A2 < R(1 + A1)/2 limit.
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