Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2006-11-13
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
To appear in the Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics. Two figures replaced in this version
Scientific paper
The nucleon spin structure has been an active, exciting and intriguing subject of interest for the last three decades. Recent experimental data on nucleon spin structure at low to intermediate momentum transfers provide new information in the confinement regime and the transition region from the confinement regime to the asymptotic freedom regime. New insight is gained by exploring moments of spin structure functions and their corresponding sum rules (i.e. the generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn, Burkhardt-Cottingham and Bjorken). The Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule is verified to good accuracy. The spin structure moments data are compared with Chiral Perturbation Theory calculations at low momentum transfers. It is found that chiral perturbation calculations agree reasonably well with the first moment of the spin structure function $g_1$ at momentum transfer of 0.05 to 0.1 GeV$^2$ but fail to reproduce the neutron data in the case of the generalized polarizability $\delta_{LT}$ (the $\delta_{LT}$ puzzle). New data have been taken on the neutron ($^3$He), the proton and the deuteron at very low $Q^2$ down to 0.02 GeV$^2$. They will provide benchmark tests of Chiral dynamics in the kinematic region where the Chiral Perturbation theory is expected to work.
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