A Light Front Treatment of the Nucleus-Implications for Deep Inelastic Scattering
arXiv:nucl-th/9702036 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.56.R8
Abstract
A light front treatment of the nuclear wave function is developed and applied, using the mean field approximation, to infinite nuclear matter. The nuclear mesons are shown to carry about a third of the nuclear plus momentum, p+; but their momentum distribution has support only at p+ =0, and the mesons do not contribute to nuclear deep inelastic scattering. This zero mode effect occurs because the meson fields are independent of space-time position.
11 pages, revtex, 1 figure
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