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Deep inelastic scattering on asymmetric nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2010-02-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We study deep inelastic scattering on isospin asymmetric nuclei. In particular, the difference of the nuclear structure functions and the Gottfried sum rule for the lightest mirror nuclei, 3He and 3H, are investigated. It is found that such systems can provide significant information on charge symmetry breaking and flavor asymmetry in the nuclear medium. Furthermore, we propose a new method to extract the neutron structure function from radioactive isotopes far from the line of stability. We also discuss the flavor asymmetry in the Drell-Yan process with isospin asymmetric nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0008017,
  title  = {Deep inelastic scattering on asymmetric nuclei},
  author = {K. Saito and C. Boros and K. Tsushima and F. Bissey and I. R. Afnan and A. W. Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0008017},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages, one figure

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