Universality of the EMC Effect
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Using effective field theory, we investigate nuclear modification of nucleon parton distributions (for example, the EMC effect). We show that the universality of the shape distortion in nuclear parton distributions (the factorisation of the Bjorken x and atomic number (A) dependence) is model independent and emerges naturally in effective field theory. We then extend our analysis to study the analogous nuclear modifications in isospin and spin dependent parton distributions and generalised parton distributions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412119,
title = {Universality of the EMC Effect},
author = {Jiunn-Wei Chen and William Detmold},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412119},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures