1996/08/24 by Silvano Simula, Simula, Silvano
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/9608053
to appear in Proc. of the Workshop "Future Physics at HERA" DESY (Germany), September 1995 to May 1996
arxiv created 1996/08/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The production of slow nucleons in semi-inclusive deep inelastic electron scattering off the deuteron is investigated in the region x \gsim 0.3 for kinematical conditions accessible at HERA. Within the spectator mechanism the semi-inclusive cross section exhibits a scaling property, which can be used as a model-independent test of the dominance of the spectator mechanism itself, providing in this way an interesting tool to investigate the neutron structure function. The possibility of extracting model-independent information on the neutron to proton structure function ratio from semi-inclusive experiments is also illustrated.