Partonic Picture of Nuclear Shadowing at Small x

Abstract

We find that coherent multiple scatterings of the partonic fluctuations of the virtual photon with the nucleons inside the nucleus result in the large nuclear shadowing effect for parton distributions in nuclei. We predict the gluon shadowing effect at small $x$ and for $Q^2\ge 3Ge{V}^2$.

Latex plus 3 PostScript figures, 4 pages, Talk presented at Quark Matter '97, Tsukuba, Japan, Dec 1-6, 1997 (to appear in Nucl. Phys. A (Proc. Suppl.)

References in corpus (3)

• The Structure Function Ratios F2(Li)/F2(D) and F2(C)/F2(D) at small x
• QCD evolution of the gluon density in a nucleus
• Phenomenology of Nuclear Shadowing in Deep-Inelastic Scattering