Role of nuclear binding in the European-Muon-Collaboration effect

Journal Article · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.45.1374· OSTI ID:7277310

Gross, F ^[1]; Liuti, S ^[2]

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1. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 (United States) Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione Sanita, Viale Regina Elena, I-00161 Rome (Italy)

We present a new derivation of the convolution formula for the contributions of nuclear binding to the structure functions measured in the deep inelastic scattering of leptons from nuclei. The derivation, which is manifestly covariant, gives a new binding correction. This new correction, which depends on the mass of the recoiling nucleon fragments, gives corrections that are numerically significant, and that improve the agreement between theory and experiment at large {ital x}. We conclude that nuclear binding effects may be sufficient to explain the European-Muon-Collaboration effect at large {ital x}.

• OSTI ID: 7277310
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States) Vol. 45:3; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BINDING ENERGY
BOUND STATE
CROSS SECTIONS
DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING
DIAGRAMS
EMC EFFECT
ENERGY
FEYNMAN DIAGRAM
FUNCTIONS
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
NUCLEAR FORCES
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
SCATTERING
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
WAVE FUNCTIONS