The spin structure of the nucleon

A Deur, SJ Brodsky… - Reports on Progress in …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the present understanding of the spin structure of protons and neutrons, the
fundamental building blocks of nuclei collectively known as nucleons. The field of nucleon …

Nucleon polarizabilities: from Compton scattering to hydrogen atom

F Hagelstein, R Miskimen, V Pascalutsa - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the current state of knowledge of the nucleon polarizabilities and of their role in
nucleon Compton scattering and in hydrogen spectrum. We discuss the basic concepts, the …

Experimental study of the behavior of the Bjorken sum at very low Q2

A Deur, JP Chen, SE Kuhn, C Peng, M Ripani… - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
We present new data on the Bjorken sum Γ‾ 1 p− n (Q 2) at 4-momentum transfer 0.021≤ Q
2≤ 0.496 GeV 2. The data were obtained in two experiments performed at Jefferson Lab …

Measurement of the proton spin structure at long distances

X Zheng, A Deur, H Kang, SE Kuhn, M Ripani, J Zhang… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Measuring the spin structure of protons and neutrons tests our understanding of how they
arise from quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks of nuclear matter. At long …

Chiral perturbation theory of the hyperfine splitting in (muonic) hydrogen

F Hagelstein, V Lensky, V Pascalutsa - The European Physical Journal C, 2023 - Springer
The ongoing experimental efforts to measure the hyperfine transition in muonic hydrogen
prompt an accurate evaluation of the proton-structure effects. At the leading order in α, which …

Determination of the proton spin structure functions for using CLAS

RG Fersch, N Guler, P Bosted, A Deur, K Griffioen… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present the results of our final analysis of the full data set of g 1 p (Q 2), the spin structure
function of the proton, collected using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory in 2000–2001 …

Precise determination of the deuteron spin structure at low to moderate with CLAS and extraction of the neutron contribution

N Guler, RG Fersch, SE Kuhn, P Bosted, KA Griffioen… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We present the final results for the deuteron spin structure functions obtained from the full
data set collected in 2000–2001 with Jefferson Lab's continuous electron beam accelerator …

Measurement of the generalized spin polarizabilities of the neutron in the low-Q2 region

V Sulkosky, C Peng, J Chen, A Deur, S Abrahamyan… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the nucleon spin structure in the regime where the strong interaction
becomes truly strong poses a challenge to both experiment and theory. At energy scales …

Forward doubly-virtual Compton scattering off the nucleon in chiral perturbation theory. II. Spin polarizabilities and moments of polarized structure functions

JM Alarcón, F Hagelstein, V Lensky, V Pascalutsa - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We examine the polarized doubly-virtual Compton scattering (VVCS) off the nucleon using
chiral perturbation theory (χ PT). The polarized VVCS contains a wealth of information on the …

Dispersion theory in electromagnetic interactions

B Pasquini, M Vanderhaeghen - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
We review various applications of dispersion relations (DRs) to the electromagnetic structure
of hadrons. We discuss the way DRs allow one to extract information about hadron structure …