Published September 1, 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

Nuclear effects in deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering

  • 1. III. Physikalisches Institut, Technische Hochschule Aachen, D 5100 Aachen, Germany

Description

The ratio of the structure function F2/sup A/(x) of a nucleus A to that of deuterium F2/sup D/(x) is computed for A = Fe, Al, 12C, and 4He. The difference between scattering off free and bound nucleons is explained by a fraction g of the valence quarks of nuclear matter moving effectively in bags of doubled size (e.g., α's). The difference between European Muon Collaboration and SLAC data is attributed to the different effective quark mass, which is close to zero at -q2 = 100 GeV2, but 140 +- 25 MeV, at <-q2> = 3 GeV2. A cluster probability of g = 15% (10%) fits the Fe (Al) data quite well

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
5
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
900-903
ISSN
0556-2821