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Extraction of neutron structure from tagged structure functions

Nuclear Theory 2015-05-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present work in a model used to describe semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off the deuteron. The model uses the virtual nucleon approximation to describe the interaction of the photon with the bound neutron and the generalized eikonal approximation is applied to calculate the final-state interaction diagram. Comparison with data taken at Jefferson Lab shows good agreement in the covered range of kinematics and points at a largely suppressed off-shell rescattering amplitude. The WW and Q2Q^2 dependences of the total cross section and slope factor of the interaction of DIS products, XX, off the spectator nucleon are extracted. Starting from the JLab data and our model calculations, we outline and apply an extrapolation method to obtain the neutron structure function F2NF_{2N} at high Bjorken xx.

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@article{arxiv.1101.1258,
  title  = {Extraction of neutron structure from tagged structure functions},
  author = {Wim Cosyn and Misak Sargsian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.1258},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures,presented at 3rd International Workshop on Nucleon Structure at Large Bjorken x October 13-15, 2010

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