Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering Off the Helium and Tritium Mirror Nuclei

Journal Article · Wed Sep 21 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3631525· OSTI ID:21611623

Holt, Roy J ^[1]; Petratos, Gerassimos G ^[2]

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1. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 (United States)

We discuss a possible measurement of the ratio of nucleon structure functions, F{sub 2}{sup n}/F{sub 2}{sup p}, and the ratio of up to down quark distributions, u/d, at large Bjorken x, by performing deep inelastic electron scattering from the {sup 3}H and {sup 3}He mirror nuclei with the 11 GeV upgraded beam of Jefferson Lab. The measurement is expected to be almost free of nuclear effects, which introduce a significant uncertainty in the extraction of these two ratios from deep inelastic scattering off the proton and deuteron. The results are expected to test perturbative and non-perturbative mechanisms of spin-flavor symmetry breaking in the nucleon, and constrain the structure function parametrizations needed for the interpretation of high energy collider and neutrino oscillations data. The precision of the expected data can also test models of the nuclear EMC effect and provide valuable input for its full explanation.

• OSTI ID: 21611623
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1369; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BARYON REACTIONS
BARYONS
CEBAF ACCELERATOR
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
COMPOSITE MODELS
D QUARKS
DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING
DEUTERON REACTIONS
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ELECTRONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EMC EFFECT
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FIELD THEORIES
FLAVOR MODEL
FUNCTIONS
HADRON REACTIONS
HADRONS
HELIUM 3 TARGET
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MIRROR NUCLEI
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEON REACTIONS
NUCLEONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE STRUCTURE
PERTURBATION THEORY
PROTON REACTIONS
PROTONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MODEL
QUARKS
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STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS
SYMMETRY BREAKING
TARGETS
TRITIUM TARGET