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Neutron Structure Function and A=3 Mirror Nuclei

I. R. Afnan, F. Bissey, J. Gomez, A. T. Katramatou, W. Melnitchouk, G. G. Petratos, A. W. Thomas

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0006003

Abstract

We investigate deep inelastic scattering from He-3 and H-3 within a conventional convolution treatment of binding and Fermi motion effects. Using realistic Faddeev wave functions together with a nucleon spectral function, we demonstrate that the free neutron structure function can be extracted in deep-inelastic scattering from A=3 mirror nuclei, with nuclear effects canceling to within 2% for x < 0.85.

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