Momentum-space Faddeev calculations for confining potentials

Abstract

We report the results of a new measurement of spin structure functions of the deuteron in the region of moderate momentum transfer [Q(2)=0.27-1.3 (GeV/c)(2)] and final hadronic state mass in the nucleon resonance region (W=1.08-2.0 GeV). We scattered a 2.5 GeV polarized continuous electron beam at Jefferson Lab off a dynamically polarized cryogenic solid state target ((ND3)-N-15) and detected the scattered electrons with the CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer. From our data, we extract the longitudinal double spin asymmetry A(parallel toparallel to) and the spin structure function g(1)(d). Our data are generally in reasonable agreement with existing data from SLAC where they overlap, and they represent a substantial improvement in statistical precision. We compare our results with expectations for resonance asymmetries and extrapolated deep inelastic scaling results. Finally, we evaluate the first moment of the structure function g(1)(d) and study its approach to both the deep inelastic limit at large Q(2) and to the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule at the real photon limit (Q(2)-->0). We find that the first moment varies rapidly in the Q(2) range of our experiment and crosses zero at Q(2) between 0.5 and 0.8 (GeV/c)(2), indicating the importance of the Delta resonance at these momentum transfers.