arXiv · nucl-th/9407007
Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function
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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W. Melnitchouk, A. W. Schreiber, A. W. Thomas. 1994-07-05. Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function. https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(94)91550-4
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