Relativistic deuteron structure function

1994/07/05 by Wally Melnitchouk, W. Melnitchouk, Andreas Schreiber +2 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Convolution (computer science) #Covariant transformation #Deuterium #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Impulse (physics) #Mathematical physics #Neutron #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #SHELL model #Structure function #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)91550-4

published as Phys.Lett.B335:11-16,1994 · 9 pages LaTeX, 4 uuencoded figures, to appear in Physics Letters B, TPR-94-03; PSI-PR-94-15; ADP-93-227/T143

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Abstract

We calculate the unpolarised deep inelastic structure function of a relativistic deuteron within a covariant framework. An exact treatment of nucleon off-shell effects is shown to give corrections to the widely-used convolution model, even in impulse approximation. Neglecting off-shell effects in the extraction of the neutron structure function from deuterium data introduces errors of order 1-2%.

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