On the change of scale observed in nuclear deep-inelastic scattering
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 35 (1) , 108-112
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.35.108
Abstract
We reexamine claims that the European Muon Collaboration effect provides direct evidence for a change in the quark structure of a nucleon inside a nucleus. To the extent that binding corrections can account for the data, we show that there is in fact no change in the momentum distributions of the quarks as a fraction of the nucleon momentum; nor does an increased correlation length necessarily imply an increase in size. The real problem is that Bjorken x is not the most appropriate scaling variable for nuclear deep-inelastic scattering.Keywords
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