Neutron Structure Functions
Nuclear Theory
2008-12-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Neutron structure functions can be extracted from proton and deuteron data and a representation of the deuteron structure. This procedure does not require DIS approximations or quark structure assumptions. We find that the results depend critically on properly accounting for the Q^2 dependence of proton and deuteron data. We interpolate the data to fixed Q^2, and extract the ratio of neutron to proton structure functions. The extracted ratio decreases with increasing x, up to x \approx 0.9, while there are no data available to constrain the behavior at larger x.
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@article{arxiv.0805.3116,
title = {Neutron Structure Functions},
author = {J. Arrington and F. Coester and R. J. Holt and T. -S. H. Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3116},
year = {2008}
}
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16 pages, 6 figures