A Light Front Treatment of the Nucleus-Implications for Deep Inelastic Scattering
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
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+; but their momentum distribution has support only at p+ =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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9702036,
title = {A Light Front Treatment of the Nucleus-Implications for Deep Inelastic Scattering},
author = {Gerald A. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9702036},
year = {2008}
}
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11 pages, revtex, 1 figure