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Comment on ``Parton distributions, d/u, and higher twist effects at high x''

W. Melnitchouk, I. R. Afnan, F. Bissey, A. W. Thomas

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/9912001

Abstract

In a recent paper Yang and Bodek extracted the free neutron structure function at large x by extrapolating the density dependence of the nuclear EMC ratios to the deuteron. We clarify why this approach is ill-defined for light nuclei, and introduces a large theoretical bias into the extraction of F2n at large x.

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