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Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Maria B. Barbaro

We introduce the concept of the nucleon energy correlators, a set of novel objects that encode the microscopic details of a nucleon, such as the parton angular distribution in a nucleon, the collinear splitting to all orders, as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-08 Xiaohui Liu , Hua Xing Zhu

We investigate shadowing effects in deep-inelastic scattering from nuclei at small values $x<0.1$ of the Bjorken variable. Unifying aspects of generalized vector meson dominance and color transparency we first develop a model for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Piller , W. Ratzka , W. Weise

Deep inelastic scattering of leptons off nuclear targets is analized within the convolution model taking into account nucleon-nucleon correlations. We show that in the nuclear medium nucleons are distributed according to a function that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 O. Benhar , S. Fantoni , G. I. Lykasov , N. V. Slavin

Sub-GeV dark matter particles evade standard direct detection studies since their typical energies in the galactic halo do not allow for detectable recoil of the heavy nuclei in the detectors. However, it was noted that if the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Richie Diurba , Helena Kolešová , Gailyn Monroe

Investigating nucleon-nucleon correlations inherent to the strong nuclear force is one of the core goals in nuclear physics research. We showcase the unique opportunities offered by collisions of $^{16}$O nuclei at high-energy facilities to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Chunjian Zhang , Jinhui Chen , Giuliano Giacalone , Shengli Huang , Jiangyong Jia , Yu-Gang Ma

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) would enable next-generation measurements of deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) on the deuteron with detection of a forward-moving nucleon (p, n) and measurement of its recoil momentum ("spectator tagging"). Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 W. Cosyn , V. Guzey , M. Sargsian , M. Strikman , C. Weiss

We present a theoretical investigation of photonuclear tomography as a novel technique for probing the internal structure of nuclei. In this approach, ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) serve as a source of intense fluxes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 J. D. Baker , C. A. Bertulani , Victor P. Goncalves

The analysis of the sample of charged current quasi elastic events collected by the MiniBooNE Collaboration suggests that the scheme successfully employed to describe electron-nucleus scattering fails to explain neutrino-nucleus cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-18 Omar Benhar

Neutrino physics is advancing into a precision era with the construction of new experiments, particularly in the few GeV energy range. Within this energy range, neutrinos exhibit diverse interactions with nucleons and nuclei. This study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-01 Joachim Kopp , Noemi Rocco , Zahra Tabrizi

Semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton scattering off few-nucleon systems is investigated assuming that virtual boson absorption occurs on a hadronic cluster which can be either a two-nucleon correlated pair or a six-quark bag. In both cases…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Ciofi degli Atti , S. Simula

The persistently mysterious deviations from unity of the ratio of nuclear target structure functions to those of deuterium as measured in deep inelastic scattering (often termed the "EMC Effect") have become the canonical observable for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-01-20 H. Szumila-Vance , C. Keppel , S. Escalante , N. Kalantarians

I review the main features of the nuclear response extracted from electron scattering data. The emerging picture clearly shows that the shell model does not provide a fully quantitative description of nuclear dynamics. On the other hand,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Omar Benhar

A detailed study of inclusive deep inelastic scattering (DIS) from mirror A = 3 nuclei at large values of the Bjorken variable x is presented. The main purpose is to estimate the theoretical uncertainties on the extraction of the neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Sargsian , S. Simula , M. I. Strikman

We study $eA$ scattering in a model where the total nuclear structure function is a convolution of components $W_N$ for an isolated nucleon and $W_{\NA}$ for a nucleus composed of point-nucleons. $W_N$ is represented by its elastic and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. S. Rinat , M. F. Taragin

Although relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a powerful probe for studying nuclear structure, the potential influence of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations (NN-SRCs) on the initial state has remained an open question. By…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Pei Li , Kai-Jia Sun , Bo Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma

Deep inelastic scattering is considered in a statistical model of the nucleon. This incorporates certain features which are absent in the standard parton model such as quantum statistical correlations which play a role in the propagation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Cleymans , I. Dadic , J. Joubert

Nucleon exchange mechanism is investigated in deep-inelastic symmetric heavy-ion collisions in the basis of the Stochastic Mean-Field approach. By extending the previous work to off-central collisions, analytical expression is deduced for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 B. Yilmaz , S. Ayik , D. Lacroix , O. Yilmaz

This review outlines our present experimental knowledge and theoretical understanding of deep-inelastic scattering on nuclear targets. The emphasis is primarily on nuclear coherence phenomena, such as shadowing, where the key physics issue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gunther Piller , Wolfram Weise

Using an isospin-dependent transport model, we study the effects of nuclear symmetry energy on two-nucleon correlation functions in heavy ion collisions induced by neutron-rich nuclei. We find that the density dependence of the nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Lie-Wen Chen , Vincenzo Greco , Che Ming Ko , Bao-An Li