Neutron Valence Structure from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering
Abstract
Mechanisms of spin-flavor SU(6) symmetry breaking in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) are studied via an extraction of the free neutron structure function from a global analysis of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data on the proton and on nuclei from $A = 2$ (deuterium) to 208 (lead). Modification of the structure function of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei (known as the EMC effect) are consistently accounted for within the framework of a universal modification of nucleons in short-range correlated (SRC) pairs. Our extracted neutron-to-proton structure function ratio $$F_2^n/F_2^p$$ becomes constant for $$x_B \ge 0.6$$, equalling $$0.47 \pm 0.04$$ as $$x_B \rightarrow 1$$, in agreement with theoretical predictions of perturbative QCD and the Dyson Schwinger equation, and in disagreement with predictions of the Scalar Diquark dominance model. Finally, we also predict $$F_2^{^3\mathrm{He}}/F_2^{^3\mathrm{H}}$$, recently measured, yet unpublished, by the MARATHON collaboration, the nuclear correction function that is needed to extract $$F_2^n/F_2^p$$ from $$F_2^{^3\mathrm{He}}/F_2^{^3\mathrm{H}}$$, and the theoretical uncertainty associated with this extraction.
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[6];
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1608976
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1603743
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-20-3176; DOE/OR/23177-4957; arXiv:1908.02223
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; TRN: US2105144
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-94ER40818; FG02-96ER-40960; FG02-93ER40771; AC05-06OR23177; 136/12; 1334/16
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
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Segarra, Efrain P., Schmidt, Axel, Kutz, T., Higinbotham, D. W., Piasetzky, E., Strikman, M., Weinstein, L. B., and Hen, O. Neutron Valence Structure from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.092002.
Segarra, Efrain P., Schmidt, Axel, Kutz, T., Higinbotham, D. W., Piasetzky, E., Strikman, M., Weinstein, L. B., & Hen, O. Neutron Valence Structure from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.092002
Segarra, Efrain P., Schmidt, Axel, Kutz, T., Higinbotham, D. W., Piasetzky, E., Strikman, M., Weinstein, L. B., and Hen, O. Fri .
"Neutron Valence Structure from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.092002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1608976.
@article{osti_1608976,
title = {Neutron Valence Structure from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering},
author = {Segarra, Efrain P. and Schmidt, Axel and Kutz, T. and Higinbotham, D. W. and Piasetzky, E. and Strikman, M. and Weinstein, L. B. and Hen, O.},
abstractNote = {Mechanisms of spin-flavor SU(6) symmetry breaking in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) are studied via an extraction of the free neutron structure function from a global analysis of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data on the proton and on nuclei from $A = 2$ (deuterium) to 208 (lead). Modification of the structure function of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei (known as the EMC effect) are consistently accounted for within the framework of a universal modification of nucleons in short-range correlated (SRC) pairs. Our extracted neutron-to-proton structure function ratio $F_2^n/F_2^p$ becomes constant for $x_B \ge 0.6$, equalling $0.47 \pm 0.04$ as $x_B \rightarrow 1$, in agreement with theoretical predictions of perturbative QCD and the Dyson Schwinger equation, and in disagreement with predictions of the Scalar Diquark dominance model. Finally, we also predict $F_2^{^3\mathrm{He}}/F_2^{^3\mathrm{H}}$, recently measured, yet unpublished, by the MARATHON collaboration, the nuclear correction function that is needed to extract $F_2^n/F_2^p$ from $F_2^{^3\mathrm{He}}/F_2^{^3\mathrm{H}}$, and the theoretical uncertainty associated with this extraction.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.092002},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 9,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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