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Effect of bound nucleon internal structure change on nuclear structure functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Effect of bound nucleon internal structure change on nuclear structure functions is investigated based on local quark-hadron duality. The bound nucleon structure functions calculated for charged-lepton and (anti)neutrino scattering are all enhanced in symmetric nuclear matter at large Bjorken-xx (x\agt0.85x \agt 0.85) relative to those in a free nucleon. This implies that a part of the enhancement observed in the nuclear structure function F2F_2 (in the resonance region) at large Bjorken-xx (the EMC effect) is due to the effect of the bound nucleon internal structure change. However, the xx dependence for the charged-lepton and (anti)neutrino scattering is different. The former [latter] is enhanced [quenched] in the region 0.8\altx\alt0.90.8 \alt x \alt 0.9 [0.7\altx\alt0.850.7 \alt x \alt 0.85] due to the difference of the contribution from axial vector form factor. Because of these differences charge symmetry breaking in parton distributions will be enhanced in nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409217,
  title  = {Effect of bound nucleon internal structure change on nuclear structure functions},
  author = {K. Tsushima and K. Saito and F. M. Steffens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409217},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in PLB. Effect of Fermimotion is included. Accordingly, 4 figures as well as the text were modified

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