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New Approaches to Target Mass Corrections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-27 v1 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We analyze different prescriptions for the inclusion of target mass effects in the extraction of parton distributions from the measured structure functions. As a main result, the problem of defining parton distributions in the presence of mass is an open problem.

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@article{arxiv.1103.5710,
  title  = {New Approaches to Target Mass Corrections},
  author = {F. M. Steffens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.5710},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages. Presented at HiX2010, Jlab, October 2010

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