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Quark-Hadron Duality in Spin Structure Functions g1p and g1d

P. E. Bosted, K. V. Dharmawardane, G. E. Dodge, T. A. Forest, S. E. Kuhn, Y. Prok et al.

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0607283

Abstract

New measurements of the spin structure functions of the proton and deuteron g1p(x,Q2) and g1d(x,Q2) in the nucleon resonance region are compared with extrapolations of target-mass-corrected next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD fits to higher energy data. Averaged over the entire resonance region (W<2 GeV), the data and QCD fits are in good agreement in both magnitude and Q2 dependence for Q2>1.7 GeV2. This global duality appears to result from cancellations among the prominent local resonance regions: in particular strong sigma3/2 contributions in the Delta(1232) region appear to be compensated by strong sigma1/2 contributions in the resonance region centered on 1.5 GeV. These results are encouraging for the extension of NLO QCD fits to lower W and Q2 than have been used previously.

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