Relativistic deuteron structure function

May, 1994
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 335 (1994) 11-16
e-Print:
Report number:
  • 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 12%1-2\%.
  • electron deuteron: deep inelastic scattering
  • deep inelastic scattering: electron deuteron
  • deuteron: structure function
  • relativistic
  • deuteron: wave function
  • invariance: Lorentz
  • nuclear physics: correction
  • nucleon: structure function
  • impulse approximation
  • effect: off-shell