1997/06/05 by Gerald A. Miller, Miller, Gerald A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Nuclear physics research studies #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/9706017
10 pages Written version of a talk presented at the meeting "New non-perturbative methods and quantization on the light cone", in Les Houches from February 24 to March 7
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A light front treatment of the nuclear wave function is developed and applied, using the mean field approximation, to infinite nuclear matter. The nuclear mesons are shown to carry about a third of the nuclear plus momentum; but their momentum distribution has support only at for vanishingly small values of the plus momentum, so the mesons do not contribute to nuclear deep inelastic scattering. This zero mode effect occurs because the meson fields are independent of space-time position.