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Title: Shadowing effects in deep-inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (USA)
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  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, D-8400 Regensburg (Federal Republic of Germany)

We investigate the shadowing phenomenon observed in deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering in the region of small {ital x} using a generalization of the vector meson dominance model which includes both the low mass vector meson resonances and the higher mass quark-antiquark continuum in the photon spectral function. Our description is consistent with the nucleon structure function {ital F}{sub 2}{sup {ital N}}({ital Q}{sup 2},{ital x}) in the low {ital x} region, including its scaling properties. We find that the nuclear multiple scattering of hadronic components of the virtual photon reproduces the experimental data for {ital F}{sub 2}{sup {ital A}}/{ital AF}{sub 2}{sup {ital N}} at {ital x}{lt}0.1.

OSTI ID:
6040878
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (USA), Vol. 42:5; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English