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Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Apr 22;94(15):152001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.152001. Epub 2005 Apr 20.

Evidence for strange-quark contributions to the nucleon's form factors at Q2=0.108 (GeV/c)2.

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F E Maas, K Aulenbacher, S Baunack, L Capozza, J Diefenbach, B Gläser, T Hammel, D von Harrach, Y Imai, E-M Kabuss, R Kothe, J H Lee, A Lorente, E Schilling, D Schwaab, M Sikora, G Stephan, G Weber, C Weinrich, I Altarev, J Arvieux, M El-Yakoubi, R Frascaria, R Kunne, M Morlet, S Ong, J van de Wiele, S Kowalski, B Plaster, R Suleiman, S Taylor

Affiliations

  1. Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, JJ Becherweg 45, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.

PMID: 15904134 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.152001

Abstract

We report on a measurement of the parity violating asymmetry in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons off unpolarized protons with the A4 apparatus at MAMI in Mainz at a four momentum transfer value of Q(2)=0.108 (GeV/c)(2) and at a forward electron scattering angle of 30 degrees p)=[-1.36+/-0.29(stat)+/-0.13(syst)]x10(-6). The expectation from the standard model assuming no strangeness contribution to the vector current is A(0)=(-2.06+/-0.14)x10(-6). We have improved the statistical accuracy by a factor of 3 as compared to our previous measurements at a higher Q2. We have extracted the strangeness contribution to the electromagnetic form factors from our data to be G(s)(E)+0.106G(s)(M)=0.071+/-0.036 at Q(2)=0.108 (GeV/c)(2). We again find the value for G(s)(E)+0.106G(s)(M) to be positive, this time at an improved significance level of two sigma.

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