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Title: Light front treatment of nuclei and deep inelastic scattering

Conference ·

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{sup +}; but their momentum distribution has support only at p{sup +} = 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.

Research Organization:
Stanford Univ., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
304101
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-7552; CONF-970291-; ON: DE98059109; TRN: US200306%%89
Resource Relation:
Conference: New nonperturbative methods and quantization on the light cone, Les Houches (FR), 02/24/1997--03/07/1997; Other Information: Supercedes report DE98059109; PBD: Jun 1997; PBD: 1 Jun 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English