Published November 19, 2010
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Journal article
Scaling of the F2 Structure Function in Nuclei and Quark Distributions at x>1
Creators
- 1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)
- 2. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
- 3. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois (United States)
- 4. Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia (United States)
Description
We present new data on electron scattering from a range of nuclei taken in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. For heavy nuclei, we observe a rapid falloff in the cross section for x>1, which is sensitive to short-range contributions to the nuclear wave function, and in deep inelastic scattering corresponds to probing extremely high momentum quarks. This result agrees with higher energy muon scattering measurements, but is in sharp contrast to neutrino scattering measurements which suggested a dramatic enhancement in the distribution of the ''superfast'' quarks probed at x>1. The falloff at x>1 is noticeably stronger in 2H and 3He, but nearly identical for all heavier nuclei.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.212502;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1008.2713v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 105
- Journal Issue
- 21
- Journal Page Range
- p. 212502-212502.5
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43020929
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CEBAF ACCELERATOR; CROSS SECTIONS; DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING; DEUTERIUM; DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRONS; HEAVY NUCLEI; HELIUM 3; NEUTRINOS; QUARKS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FERMIONS; FUNCTIONS; HELIUM ISOTOPES; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; INELASTIC SCATTERING; INTERACTIONS; ISOTOPES; LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; LIGHT NUCLEI; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; SCATTERING; STABLE ISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics