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Neutron Structure Function and A=3 Mirror Nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We investigate deep inelastic scattering from He-3 and H-3 within a conventional convolution treatment of binding and Fermi motion effects. Using realistic Faddeev wave functions together with a nucleon spectral function, we demonstrate that the free neutron structure function can be extracted in deep-inelastic scattering from A=3 mirror nuclei, with nuclear effects canceling to within 2% for x < 0.85.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0006003,
  title  = {Neutron Structure Function and A=3 Mirror Nuclei},
  author = {I. R. Afnan and F. Bissey and J. Gomez and A. T. Katramatou and W. Melnitchouk and G. G. Petratos and A. W. Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0006003},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B