Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We calculate the unpolarised deep inelastic structure function of a relativistic deuteron within a covariant framework. An exact treatment of nucleon off-shell effects is shown to give corrections to the widely-used convolution model, even in impulse approximation. Neglecting off-shell effects in the extraction of the neutron structure function from deuterium data introduces errors of order .
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9407007,
title = {Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function},
author = {W. Melnitchouk and A. W. Schreiber and A. W. Thomas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9407007},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures, to appear in Physics Letters B, TPR-94-03; PSI-PR-94-15; ADP-93-227/T143