Neutron Structure Functions

Abstract

Neutron structure functions can be extracted from proton and deuteron data and a representation of the deuteron structure. This procedure does not require DIS approximations or quark structure assumptions. We find that the results depend critically on properly accounting for the Q^2 dependence of proton and deuteron data. We interpolate the data to fixed Q^2, and extract the ratio of neutron to proton structure functions. The extracted ratio decreases with increasing x, up to x \approx 0.9, while there are no data available to constrain the behavior at larger x.

16 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (3)

• Similarity Renormalization Group for Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions
• Collider Physics at HERA
• Longitudinal-Transverse Separations of Structure Functions at Low $Q^2$ for Hydrogen and Deuterium

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Short Range Correlations and the EMC Effect
• Distribution Functions of the Nucleon and Pion in the Valence Region
• Mini review of Poincaré invariant quantum theory
• Valence quark distributions of the proton from maximum entropy approach
• Direct observation of quark-hadron duality in the free neutron F_2 structure function
• Exploring Nucleon Structure with the Self-Organizing Maps Algorithm