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Valence Quark Distribution in A=3 Nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2012-08-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We calculate the quark distribution function for 3He/3H in a relativistic quark model of nuclear structure which adequately reproduces the nucleon approximation, nuclear binding energies, and nuclear sizes for small nuclei. The results show a clear distortion from the quark distribution function for individual nucleons (EMC effect) arising dominantly from a combination of recoil and quark tunneling effects. Antisymmetrization (Pauli) effects are found to be small due to limited spatial overlaps. We compare our predictions with a published parameterization of the nuclear valence quark distributions and find significant agreement.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0307038,
  title  = {Valence Quark Distribution in A=3 Nuclei},
  author = {C. J. Benesh and T. Goldman and G. J. Stephenson,},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0307038},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

18pp., revtex4, 4 figs

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