The cross-section of muon-nuclear inelastic interaction

Abstract

It is shown that the combination of the structure functions $F_2$ predicted by the CKMT model at low and moderate values of $Q^2$ and MRS99 parton distribution functions at high $Q^2$ gives a good description of the data over complete measured region of $x$ and $Q^2$. Using these structure functions the main characteristics of the muon-nucleus inelastic scattering are calculated. Nuclear effects and contributions of the neutral current and $\gamma -Z$ interference are taken into account.

35 pages, 16 figures, to be submitted to The European Physical Journal C