Some Aspects of Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

Nuclear deep inelastic scattering is considered in the framework of a model in which the current operator explicitly satisfies Poincare invariance and current conservation. The results considerably differ from the standard ones at small values of the Bjorken variable $x$. In particular, it is impossible to extract the neutron structure functions from the deuteron data at x<0.01 and we predict that the behavior of the deuteron structure functions at low x and large momentum transfer considerably differs from the behavior of the nucleon structure functions at such conditions. We also argue that for heavier nuclei the effect of the final state interaction is important even in the Bjorken limit.

24 pages, LaTeX

References in corpus (7)

• A Measurement of the Proton Structure Function $F_2(x,Q^2)$
• Deep Inelastic Scattering from off-Shell Nucleons
• Shadowing, Binding and Off-Shell Effects in Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering
• Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function
• Exact Construction of the Electromagnetic Current Operator for Relativistic Composite Systems
• A Relativistic Approach to Deep Inelastic Scattering on the Deuteron
• Spin Force Dependence Of Nucleon Structure Functions

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Deep inelastic scattering on the deuteron in the Bethe-Salpeter formalism II: Realistic $NN$-interaction