Neutron valence structure from nuclear deep inelastic scattering
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Segarra, Efrain Patrick; Schmidt, Axel; Kutz, Tyler; Higinbotham, D. W.; Piasetzky, E.; Strikman, M.; Weinstein, L. B.; Hen, O.; ... Show more Show less
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Mechanisms of spin-flavor SU(6) symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are studied via an extraction of the free neutron structure function from a global analysis of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data on the proton and on nuclei from A=2 (deuterium) to 208 (lead). Modification of the structure function of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei (known as the EMC effect) are consistently accounted for within the framework of a universal modification of nucleons in short-range correlated (SRC) pairs. Our extracted neutron-to-proton structure function ratio F[subscript 2 under superscript n]/F[subscript 2 under superscript p] becomes constant for x[subscript B]≥0.6, equaling 0.47±0.04 as x[subscript B]→1, in agreement with theoretical predictions of perturbative QCD and the Dyson-Schwinger equation, and in disagreement with predictions of the scalar diquark dominance model. We also predict [mathematical figure; see resource], recently measured, as yet unpublished, by the MARATHON Collaboration, the nuclear correction function that is needed to extract F[subscript 2 under superscript n]/F[subscript 2 under superscript p] from [mathematical figure; see resource], and the theoretical uncertainty associated with this extraction. ©2020
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2020-03-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical review letters
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American Physical Society
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Segarra, E.P., et al., "Neutron valence structure from nuclear deep inelastic scattering." Physical review letters 124 (Mar. 2020): no. 092002 doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.092002 ©2020 Author(s)
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1079-7114
0031-9007