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Universal modified function in conjunction with the short range correlation effect to extract the nuclear $xF_3^A$ structure function

Nuclear Theory 2025-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are comprehensive and not reliant on the process. They are affected by nuclear matter during nuclear scattering process. As a recent approach, in order to study the nuclear PDFs (nPDFs), the nucleon pair PDFs are utilized to describe parton distributions in the nucleon pair which are confined to a nucleus. Nucleon pair PDFs stem from nucleon-nucleon correlation which is called short range correlation (SRC) and are proportional to common nucleon PDFs. In this regard a modified universal function is constructed which provides a test for SRC in (neutrino)-nucleus scattering. In fact we can show that the modification of the structure function of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei (known as the EMC effect) are consistently accounted for within the frame work of a universal modification of nucleons in SRC pairs. In this article, based on the strategy which was introduced in Ref.\cite{nature}, we are investigating to find the universality behaviour for the ratio of nonsinglet xF3AxF_3^A nuclear structure function. The numerical calculations performed within the CTEQ framework confirm the universality feature of the concerned ratio, as has been established for the ratio of the structure function F2AF^A_2 in Ref. \cite{nature}. Following that we reformulate the REMCR_{EMC} nuclear weight function which relates the free and bound structure function in terms of modified universal function. It makes us a possibility to achieve REMCR_{EMC} and finally xF3AxF_3^A nuclear structure function for each nucleus only by considering the specified feature of nucleus.The results are compared with the nuclear xF3xF_3 structure function which are computing from bound PDFs, based on some parameterizations models. The findings, considering the SRC effect, demonstrating qualitative agreement with nCTEQ15 and EPPS21 parametrization models and also the available experimental data.

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@article{arxiv.2511.06099,
  title  = {Universal modified function in conjunction with the short range correlation effect to extract the nuclear $xF_3^A$ structure function},
  author = {A. Mirjalili and M. Akbari Ahmadmahmoudi and H. Abdolmaleki and M. M. Yazdanpanah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06099},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages, 10 figures

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