Polarized Deep-Inelastic Scattering from Nuclei -- A Relativistic Approach
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A covariant formulation of spin-dependent deep-inelastic scattering from nuclei is presented. In the relativistic impulse approximation the inclusive nuclear cross section is described in terms of the amplitude for forward, virtual-photon scattering from an off-mass-shell nucleon. The general structure of the off-shell nucleon hadronic tensor is derived, and the leading behavior of the off-shell nucleon structure functions computed in the Bjorken limit. The formalism, which is valid for nucleons bound inside nuclei with spin 1/2 or 1, is applied to the case of the deuteron.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9605045,
title = {Polarized Deep-Inelastic Scattering from Nuclei -- A Relativistic Approach},
author = {G. Piller and W. Melnitchouk and A. W. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9605045},
year = {2008}
}
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28 pages RevTeX, 6 postscript figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.C