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Relativistic Deuteron Structure Function

W. Melnitchouk, A. W. Schreiber, A. W. Thomas

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9407007

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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