1996/01/27 by C. Ciofi degli Atti, S. Scopetta, Sergio Scopetta +2 · 18 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Condensed matter physics #Deep inelastic scattering #Deuterium #Function (biology) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Inelastic scattering #Neutron #Nuclear physics #Nucleon #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Resonance (particle physics) #Scattering #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spin structure #Structure function #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00283-3
published in Physics Letters B 376(4), 309-314 (Elsevier BV) · 11 pages, 4 Postscript figures
arxiv created 1996/01/27 · openalex publication_date 1996/05/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Nuclear effects in the spin-dependent structure function g1 of the deuteron are studied in the kinematics of future experiments at CEBAF, (ν≤ 3~GeV, ~Q2 ≤ 2~GeV2). The magnitude of nuclear effects is found to be significantly larger than the one occurring in deep inelastic scattering (ν→ ∞, ~Q2→ ∞). A possibility to measure the neutron structure functions in the CEBAF experiments with deuterium is analysed. It is found that disregarding or improperly treating nuclear effects in the region of nucleon resonances would lead to the ``extraction" of an unreliable function. A procedure aimed at correctly extracting the neutron structure function from the deuterium data is illustrated and conclusions about the experimental study of the Q2 dependence of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule for the neutron are drawn.